Interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation for immigrants with chronic pain who need language interpretation.

Objective: To investigate outcomes in patients with chronic pain after participation in an interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation programme with language interpreters, and to investigate the outcomes in women and men separately.

Design: Prospective multi-centre cohort study.

Patients: Ninety-five patients in Sweden with chronic pain who have insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language.

Swedish Chronic Pain Biobank: protocol for a multicentre registry and biomarker project.

Introduction: About 20% of the adult population have chronic pain, often associated with psychological distress, sick leave and poor health. There are large variations in the clinical picture. A biopsychosocial approach is used in investigation and treatment.

Healthcare professionals' experiences and perspectives of team-based interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation with immigrants requiring an interpreter. A qualitative study.

Purpose: There is a lack of knowledge about interprofessional rehabilitation for culturally diverse patients with chronic pain. This study explores experiences of healthcare professionals developing and working with rehabilitation with patients in need of an interpreter and their experience of working with interpreters.

Methods: Twelve healthcare professionals at two Swedish specialist rehabilitation centres were interviewed.

Expanding Our Reach: Development of a Civilian Helicopter Air Ambulance K9 Response Program.

This short communication highlights the development and implementation of the first civilian helicopter air ambulance canine response program in the United States.

Resistance training to reduce the malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome of chronic kidney disease.

Background: Systemic inflammation and protein-energy malnutrition may be associated with poor outcomes in kidney disease.

Methods: We studied 26 adults (age, 65 +/- 10 [SD] years) with chronic kidney disease, not on dialysis therapy. Subjects were randomly assigned to resistance training (n = 14) or a control group (n = 12) for 12 weeks, while counseled to consume a low-protein diet (protein, approximately 0.