Activity-specific aquatic therapy targeting gait for a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury.

Introduction: Aquatic therapy can lead to improved mobility and health in individuals with various conditions. This case report looks at an activity-specific aquatic therapy targeting gait for a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI).

Case Report: The patient participated in an individualized aquatic therapy program two times a week for 6 weeks.

Bacterial DNA and RNA induce rat cardiac myocyte contraction depression in vitro.

Sepsis and septic shock, the systemic immunologic and pathophysiologic response to overwhelming infection, are associated with perturbation of a variety of metabolic cell pathways and with multiple organ failure (MOF) including cardiac depression. This depression has been attributed to the effect of several circulating and locally produced proinflammatory mediators. Recent data suggest that bacterial nucleic acids can produce profound systemic inflammatory responses characterized by circulatory shock in intact animals.