Extended Follow-up of Local Steroid Injection for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Local steroid injection is commonly used in treating patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome, but evidence regarding long-term efficacy is lacking.

Objective: To assess the long-term treatment effects of local steroid injection for carpal tunnel syndrome.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This exploratory 5-year extended follow-up of a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial was conducted from November 2008 to March 2012 at a university hospital orthopedic department.

Enantioseparation of benzofurys and other novel psychoactive compounds by CE and sulfobutylether β-cyclodextrin as chiral selector added to the BGE.

The illicit drug market of psychoactive substances for human abuse is continuously expanding and developing. Besides already known substance classes like cathinones, amphetamines or synthetic cannabinoids, further derivatives such as benzofurys, thiophenes, and structural analogues of methylphenidate entered the global market recently. As many of these new compounds contain a stereogenic centre it is supposed that their isomers may differ in their pharmacological effects as it is the case with amphetamines or several chiral active pharmaceutical ingredients, for instance.

Methylprednisolone injections for the carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Background: Steroid injections are used in idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), but evidence of efficacy beyond 1 month is lacking.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of local methylprednisolone injections in CTS.

Design: Randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Self-control as predictor of school grades, life balance, and flow in adolescents.

Background: Recently, several studies have shown that strength of self-control is a crucial factor in determining positive outcomes in individuals' lives. Most attention has been directed to the relationships that self-control has with learning and academic achievement.

Aims: This article analyses the effects of self-control not only on school grades but also on the experience of life balance and flow.

Relationship between distal radius fracture malunion and arm-related disability: a prospective population-based cohort study with 1-year follow-up.

Background: Distal radius fracture is a common injury and may result in substantial dysfunction and pain. The purpose was to investigate the relationship between distal radius fracture malunion and arm-related disability.

Methods: The prospective population-based cohort study included 143 consecutive patients above 18 years with an acute distal radius fracture treated with closed reduction and either cast (55 patients) or external and/or percutaneous pin fixation (88 patients).

Local steroid injection for moderately severe idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome: protocol of a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (NCT 00806871).

Background: Patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are commonly treated with steroid injection into or proximal to the carpal tunnel. However, evidence for its efficacy beyond one month has not been established in randomized placebo-controlled trials. The primary aim of this randomized trial is to assess the efficacy of steroid injection into the carpal tunnel in relieving symptoms of CTS in patients with symptoms of such severity to warrant surgical treatment but have not been treated with steroid injection.

Reciprocal relationships between value orientation and motivational interference during studying and leisure.

Background: Motivational interference is defined as the amount of impairment in a target activity due to the incentives of a non-chosen attractive alternative. The amount to which pupils experience motivational interference while studying or while performing a leisure activity in a school-leisure conflict situation is seen as depending on the values they attach to achievement and well-being. At the same time, values may also be effects of frequent experience of motivational interference in the respective areas.

Open compared with 2-portal endoscopic carpal tunnel release: a 5-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to extend the previously reported short-term randomized trial of open and endoscopic carpal tunnel release in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) to compare outcomes 5 years after surgery.

Methods: In a single-center randomized controlled trial, 128 patients (25 to 60 years) with clinically diagnosed and electrophysiologically confirmed idiopathic CTS were randomized immediately before surgery to open or 2-portal endoscopic release. The outcome measures included the validated CTS questionnaire's symptom severity and functional status scales (scored from 1 to 5) completed at baseline and 1 year postoperatively.

Individual values, learning routines and academic procrastination.

Background: Academic procrastination, the tendency to postpone learning activities, is regarded as a consequence of postmodern values that are prominent in post-industrialized societies. When students strive for leisure goals and have no structured routines for academic tasks, delaying strenuous learning activities becomes probable.

Aims: The model tested in this study posits that postmodern value orientations are positively related to procrastination and to a lack of daily routines concerning the performance of academic activities.

Finite-element simulation of wave propagation in periodic piezoelectric SAW structures.

Many surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices consist of quasiperiodic structures that are designed by successive repetition of a base cell. The precise numerical simulation of such devices, including all physical effects, is currently beyond the capacity of high-end computation. Therefore, we have to restrict the numerical analysis to the periodic substructure.

Wrist-bridging versus non-bridging external fixation for displaced distal radius fractures: a randomized assessor-blind clinical trial of 38 patients followed for 1 year.

Background: Non-bridging external fixation has been introduced to achieve better fracture fixation and functional outcomes in distal radius fractures, but has not been specifically evaluated in a randomized study in the elderly. The purpose of this trial was to compare wrist-bridging and non-bridging external fixation for displaced distal radius fractures.

Method: The inclusion criteria were women >/= 50 or men >/= 60 years, acute extraarticular or intraarticular fracture, and dorsal angulation of >/=20 degrees or ulnar variance >/= 5 mm.

Outcomes of endoscopic surgery compared with open surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome among employed patients: randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: To compare endoscopic and open carpal tunnel release surgery among employed patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Design And Setting: Randomised controlled trial at a single orthopaedic department.

Participants: 128 employed patients aged 25-60 years with clinically diagnosed and electrophysiologically confirmed idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome.