Hospital admission is associated with disability and late musculoskeletal pain in individuals with long COVID.

Background: The acute clinical repercussions of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been widely studied. However, the possible late repercussions of long COVID have not yet been well defined in the literature.

Objectives: To identify the presence of pain and musculoskeletal disability in patients with Long COVID and also to identify predictive factors for pain intensity in this population.

Superficial Femoral Artery in-Stent Restenosis Treated with Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty - Results of Three-Year Follow-Up.

Background: In-stent restenosis remains a common and important complication after endovascular treatment of superficial femoral artery peripheral artery disease. It occurs in 14 to 35% of cases in 1 year and there is still no efficient treatment for this condition. Paclitaxel-coated balloons have shown promising results.

'Your spine is so worn out' - the influence of clinical diagnosis on beliefs in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain - a qualitative study'.

Background: Patients' beliefs have an important influence on the clinical management of low back pain and healthcare professionals should be prepared to address these beliefs. There is still a gap in the literature about the influence of patients' perceptions of their clinical diagnosis on the severity of their pain experience and disability.

Objectives: To identify the perceptions of patients with chronic non-specific low back pain regarding the influence of their clinical diagnosis on pain, beliefs, and daily life activities.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire for intensive care unit inpatients in Brazil: internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and measurement error.

Study Objectives: To perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Richards-Campbell sleep questionnaire (RCSQ) to Portuguese-Brazil and to eval its internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and measurement error in intensive care unit (ICU) inpatients.

Methods: The study enrolled 113 inpatients at medical/surgical ICU in Curitiba, Brazil. The RCSQ was first translated to Portuguese-Brazil according to the principles of good practice for the translation and cultural adaptation process for patient-reported outcomes and then applied in 30 inpatients.

Central Sensitization Inventory is a useless instrument for detection of the impairment of the conditioned pain modulation in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Objective: The current study aimed to evaluate the concurrent validity and the diagnostic accuracy of the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) in detecting the impairment of the pain modulation in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 267 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain enrolled consecutively in an outpatient department. The CSI (index method) were compared with the cold pressor test, which was the psychophysical test used to assess the conditioned pain modulation (CPM), (reference standard).

The Reliability and Concurrent Validity of PainMAP Software for Automated Quantification of Pain Drawings on Body Charts of Patients With Low Back Pain.

Background: The assessment of painful areas through printed body charts is a simple way for clinicians to identify patients with widespread pain in primary care. However, there is a lack in the literature about a simple and automated method designed to analyze pain drawings in body charts in clinical practice.

Purpose: To test the inter- and intra-rater reliabilities and concurrent validity of software (PainMAP) for quantification of pain drawings in patients with low back pain.

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the cross-sectional area of the sciatic nerve in different positions of spinal manipulation using flexion-distraction technique.

Methods: Thirty healthy participants were assessed in 6 different flexion-distraction technique positions of varying lumbar, knee, and ankle positions. Participants stood in the following 3 positions with the lumbar in the neutral position: (A) with knee extended, (B) with knee flexed, and (C) with the knee extended and ankle dorsiflexion.