Using a smartphone application maintains physical activity following pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Evidence suggests that patients with COPD struggle to maintain improved physical activity (PA) after completing pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). Smartphone applications (apps) providing a comprehensive training programme have conferred healthy benefits. This study was conducted to determine whether regular usage of an app maintains PA following PR.

App-Based Feedback for Rehabilitation Exercise Correction in Patients With Knee or Hip Osteoarthritis: Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: The use of digital therapeutic solutions for rehabilitation of conditions such as osteoarthritis provides scalable access to rehabilitation. Few validated technological solutions exist to ensure supervision of users while they exercise at home. Motion Coach (Kaia Health GmbH) provides audiovisual feedback on exercise execution in real time on conventional smartphones.

Role of secreted factors in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells by the bone marrow microenvironment.

The stem cell microenvironment (in vivo known as niche) is a specific space in the bone marrow (BM), which nurses hematopoietic stem cells and regulates their self-renewal and differentiation using extrinsic cues, such as secreted factors. The niche plays a major role in regulating the number of blood cells and also protects stem cells against excessive proliferation. Till date, several possible secreted regulators of HSC function have been reported.