Publications by authors named "S Oga"
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- - This study aimed to evaluate how effective exercise and educational programs are in improving physical activity and reducing pain for patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis through a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- - Researchers reviewed 20 randomized controlled trials involving 2,350 patients and found that combining exercise with educational interventions provided very low evidence of improving activity levels and low evidence of reducing pain.
- - Despite some positive effects observed, the overall evidence was downgraded due to high risks of bias in study methods, particularly concerning allocation concealment, highlighting the need for careful interpretation of the results.
Background: Hypertension is one of the major factors for high mortality of adults in Africa. However, complications occur at lower values than those previously classified as hypertension. Thus, prehypertension is considered as a new category of hypertension and a major risk factor for developing clinical hypertension relative to those with normotension, it has been linked with increased future risk of hypertension as well as cardiovascular diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, we report a rare case of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) associated with the worsening of Kimura's disease. A 47-year-old Japanese man with a pruritic rash and swollen inguinal lymph nodes was diagnosed with Kimura's disease on performing a right inguinal lymph node biopsy. Thrombocytopenia ensued after the diagnosis of Kimura's disease, and fluctuations in the platelet count were observed along with the pathology of Kimura's disease.
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- Voluntary exercise can help protect against neuropathic pain but its effects on immobilization-induced hyperalgesia were unclear.
- A study was conducted using Wistar rats, dividing them into three groups: immobilized, immobilized with exercise, and a control group.
- Results showed that the rats that exercised with their non-immobilized forelimbs experienced less mechanical hyperalgesia in their hind paws, suggesting that voluntary exercise might reduce pain sensitivity caused by immobilization by normalizing sensory nerve functions.
Objective: The biological mechanisms of cryotherapy for managing acute pain remain unclear. Additionally, it is unknown whether the effectiveness of cryotherapy depends on the applied temperature. This study aimed to clarify the biological effects of cryotherapy and to examine the therapeutic effects of cryotherapy applied at different temperatures in rats.
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