Telephone-Delivered Physiotherapy Interventions Improve Physical Function for Adults With a Chronic Condition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of telephone-delivered physiotherapy interventions to improve lower extremity physical function and walking in adults aged ≥45 years with a chronic condition.

Data Sources: A literature search was conducted using health databases (MEDLINE, PsychINFO, EMBASE, The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) up to April 26, 2020. Reference lists of relevant studies were explored to identify additional studies.

Electrochemical Capacitor Performance of Nanotextured Carbon/Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Composites.

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are emerging low-dimensional materials with potential applications for electrochemical capacitors (EC). Here, physicochemical and electrochemical characterizations of carbon composites with two sulfides ReS and FeS are reported. To enhance conductivity, multiwalled carbon nanotubes (NTs) serve as a support for ReS while 3D graphene-like network (3DG) is utilized for FeS deposition.

Wearable Inertial Sensors for Gait Analysis in Adults with Osteoarthritis-A Scoping Review.

Our objective was to conduct a scoping review which summarizes the growing body of literature using wearable inertial sensors for gait analysis in lower limb osteoarthritis. We searched six databases using predetermined search terms which highlighted the broad areas of inertial sensors, gait, and osteoarthritis. Two authors independently conducted title and abstract reviews, followed by two authors independently completing full-text screenings.

Does patent foramen ovale promote cryptogenic stroke and migraine headache?

Cryptogenic stroke is a diagnosis of exclusion. These are strokes that occur in people who are usually less than 55 years old, without an identifiable cause. Our sensitivity to these events has been heightened because of the new definitions of a transient ischemic attack.

[Prevalence of systemic and ocular diseases in age-related cataract patients].

Background: Cataract patients often display concomitant ocular and systemic diseases which may influence the decision between general and regional anesthesia. The aim of this study was to quantify co-morbidity of these patients and assess the influence of the two types of anesthesia an the anesthesiological risk on the frequency of intra- and post-operative complications and visual outcome.

Methods: In this prospective study, in patients scheduled for cataract extraction at the University Eye Hospital and Clinic of Ulm (tertiary eye care center) all systemic and ocular diseases as well as intra- and postoperative complications were analyzed.