Naloxone-Prescribing Practices in a Freestanding Rehabilitation Hospital.

Objective: The study aims to determine whether Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physicians offer naloxone per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines to patients at the highest risk of complications from opioid treatment and whether there is a difference between inpatient and outpatient naloxone prescribing.

Design: A retrospective chart review on 389 adults (outpatient n = 166; inpatient n = 223) from May 4 to May 31, 2022, at an academic rehabilitation hospital. Prescribed medications and comorbidities were evaluated to determine whether Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for offering naloxone were met and whether naloxone was offered.

Comparison of Pain Score Reduction Using Triamcinolone vs. Betamethasone in Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections for Lumbosacral Radicular Pain.

Objective: Although the comparative efficacy of particulate vs. nonparticulate steroids for the treatment of radicular pain with transforaminal epidural steroid injection has been investigated, there is minimal literature comparing particulate steroids. The authors aimed to determine whether transforaminal epidural steroid injection with triamcinolone or betamethasone, two particulate corticosteroids, more effectively reduces lumbosacral radicular pain.

Concordant pain provocation during transforaminal epidural steroid injection for lumbosacral radiculopathy: effect on pain outcome and predictive factors.

Background: Anecdotal report suggests that provocation of pain during epidural steroid injection (ESI) that is concordant with typical radicular symptoms predicts pain outcome following injection. However, limited evidence exists that substantiates this theory. Additionally, there is a paucity of literature investigating factors associated with the provocation of pain during ESI.

Programmatic design for teaching the introductory skills and concepts of lumbar spine procedures to physiatry residents: a prospective multiyear study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a 2-day course teaching the introductory skills and concepts of lumbar spine procedures to physiatry residents.

Design: This is a 3-yr prospective study of a 2-day musculoskeletal course teaching the introductory skills and concepts of lumbar spinal procedures to the residents at a large academic physical medicine and rehabilitation program. The residents attending the course took multiple-choice pretests and posttests as well as participated in a procedural skills competency demonstration.

Vitamin D status of patients admitted to a hospital rehabilitation unit: relationship to function and progress.

Objective: The primary objective was to determine the association between vitamin D status, baseline function, and short-term inpatient rehabilitation progress.

Design: This was a prospective convenience sampling of 100 patients in a tertiary general hospital rehabilitation unit (RU). The cohort comprised men and women of mixed race with a variety of diagnoses (mean age 70 yrs).