Business continuity in the COVID-19 emergency: A framework of actions undertaken by world-leading companies.

The COVID-19 emergency has urged companies to operate in new ways to face supply chain interruptions, shifts in customer demand, and risks to workforce health. The organizational ability to respond to critical contingencies is crucial for business leaders in the perspective of continuing business. In our research, we investigate the actions undertaken by 50 world-leading corporations to respond to the pandemic.

Managing the COVID-19 emergency: A coordination framework to enhance response practices and actions.

The global outbreak of the coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) showed how epidemics today can spread very rapidly, with potentially ruinous impact on economies and societies. Whereas medical research is crucial to define effective treatment protocols, technology innovation and social research can contribute by defining effective approaches to emergency management, especially to optimize the complex dynamics arising within actors and systems during the outbreak. The purpose of this article is to define a framework for modeling activities, actors and resources coordination in the epidemic management scenario, and to reflect on its use to enhance response practices and actions.

Threat or opportunity? A case study of digital-enabled redesign of entrepreneurship education in the COVID-19 emergency.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced universities worldwide to seek urgent solutions to reconfigure traditional education programs for distance learning. The transformation process faces a number of complexities deriving from both institutional and contextual factors. It may generate threats and as well as opportunities to enhance the education system and prepare for potential future emergencies.

Onset of response with duloxetine treatment in patients with osteoarthritis knee pain and chronic low back pain: a post hoc analysis of placebo-controlled trials.

Background: Knowing when to change pain-medication strategy is not well researched and remains a gap in treating chronic pain.

Objective: Our aim was to determine how long to treat osteoarthritis (OA) knee pain and chronic low back pain (CLBP) with duloxetine before considering a change in medication strategy.

Methods: We employed a post hoc analysis of changes in pain-severity data from placebo-controlled studies of duloxetine treatment in nondepressed patients with OA knee pain and CLBP.

Quadriceps angle and risk of injury among high school cross-country runners.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To determine the relationship between quadriceps angle (Q-angle) and risk of lower extremity injury among adolescent cross-country runners.

Background: No consensus exists on the role of the Q-angle as a risk factor for lower-extremity overuse injury, especially the effect of large Q-angle or right-left Q-angle difference.

Epidemiology of musculoskeletal injuries among high school cross-country runners.

To determine the incidence of lower-extremity injury among high school cross-country runners and to identify risk factors for injury, the authors prospectively monitored a cohort of 421 runners competing on 23 cross-country teams in 12 Seattle, Washington, high schools during the 1996 cross-country season. Collected were daily injury and athletic exposure (AE) reports, a baseline questionnaire on prior running and injury experience, anthropometric measurements, and coaches' training logs. The overall incidence rate of injury was 17.

High school cross country running injuries: a longitudinal study.

Objective: To determine the incidence rate of injury among high school cross country runners over a 15-year period.

Design: Prospective-longitudinal.

Setting: Twenty-three high schools in western Washington State under the surveillance of the University of Washington Athletic Health Care System between 1979-1994.

Wrestling.

Wrestling is considered one of the most physically demanding sports among high school and college athletics and, as such, has a proportionate number of injuries. Strength and endurance is paramount to successful performance. The wrestler needs to have not only strength and endurance, but also technical skill to be successful.

Isolated superior gluteal nerve injury: two case reports.

Isolated superior gluteal nerve injury has been infrequently described in the literature, mainly from injections or hip surgery. Its course through the greater sciatic foramen renders it at risk in pelvic or hip trauma. We report 2 cases of electromyographically documented isolated superior gluteal nerve injury following pelvic trauma.

The effect of strength and endurance training on gait, balance, fall risk, and health services use in community-living older adults.

Background: The study tested the effect of strength and endurance training on gait, balance, physical health status, fall risk, and health services use in older adults.

Methods: The study was a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial with intention-to-treat analysis. Adults (n = 105) age 68-85 with at least mild deficits in strength and balance were selected from a random sample of enrollees in a health maintenance organization.

A comparison of the effects of three types of endurance training on balance and other fall risk factors in older adults.

We hypothesized that short-term endurance training improves balance in older adults, if training involves movements that "stress" balance. We tested the hypothesis by looking for a dose-response relationship between movement during exercise and balance improvement. The study was a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial.

Factors associated with changes in gait speed in older adults.

Background: The study addressed whether changes in gait speed in community-dwelling older adults were associated with changes in fitness (strength and aerobic capacity), physical health status, and/or depressive symptoms.

Methods: The study sample comprised 152 community-dwelling adults aged 68-85 who had participated in an exercise study. Study measures at baseline and 6-month follow-up included gait speed, a leg strength score, maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max), CES-Depression scale, and physical health status (SIP Physical Dimension).

Isolated femoral mononeuropathy to the vastus lateralis: EMG and MRI findings.

A 16-year-old female track athlete experienced sudden onset of right anterolateral thigh pain, initially thought to be cramping. After 2 months of continued postexercise pain she sought medical evaluation. A 3-cm thigh circumference discrepancy was noted on physical exam.

Burn-associated peripheral polyneuropathy. A search for causative factors.

This study sought to evaluate the timing of burn-associated polyneuropathy (BAPN) and its relationship to burn severity or size. Seventeen burned subjects were studied 1 wk after thermal burns. Eleven subjects remained in the study to complete 6-wk follow-up studies.

Phantom angina.

A 49-year-old man with a history of traumatic left above-elbow amputation was hospitalized for surgical management of a phantom pain syndrome. Evaluation revealed a history of exertional chest pain radiating into the phantom limb. Exercise testing reproduced the pain symptoms and demonstrated electrocardiographic ischemic S-T segment depression.