Mindfulness Meditation According to the Satipatthana Sutta: A Single-Case Study With Participants as Collaborators.

Objectives: We explored the effects of a mindfulness program based on the (instead of a contemporary Western program), with participants as collaborators, using a single-case experimental design. The main question was whether such a training has positive effects and, if so, whether and how the effects vary across participants and measures.

Method: Participants chose the design (multiple baseline) and the measures to be repeatedly collected.

Intermethod agreement and interobserver correlation of radiologic acromiohumeral distance measurements.

The acromiohumeral distance (AHD) measured on conventional, true anteroposterior radiographs taken with the patient standing and the arm held in neutral rotation can predict the presence or absence of a large, chronic rotator cuff tears, and narrowing of the acromiohumeral distance can predict irreparability of rotator cuff tears. The relation between AHD measured on conventional radiographs and the integrity of the rotator cuff tendons is well known. Conversely, the correlation between the AHD on conventional radiographs and that measured on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans is unknown.