Qigong as a novel intervention for service members with mild traumatic brain injury.

Purpose: To describe the experience of internal qigong practice in service members diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

Theoretical Framework: The study used qualitative descriptive phenomenological methods originally described by Husserl and later refined by Giorgi.

Methodology: Participants were interviewed about their experiences while learning qigong to determine their level of interest, benefits, and/or adverse effects; ease of learning/performing the routine; and any barriers to practice.

Cross-sectional assessment of pain and physical function in skeletal dysplasia patients.

Short stature skeletal dysplasia (SD) patients have orthopedic and neurologic complications causing significant pain and physical disability. We conducted a large cross-sectional online survey in 361 people with short stature SD (>10 years) to describe pain prevalence, characteristics, and the relationship between pain and function. Chronic pain prevalence per Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) was 70.

Nursing care of service members with head injury during the Vietnam war.

The purpose of this article was to describe and analyze the nursing management of head-injured soldiers by military nurses serving in the Vietnam War. This study used traditional historical methods and a military history framework. Primary sources included original military reports, letters, and policies from the Vietnam War period (located in the archives of the Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History in Falls Church, VA); journal articles of the time period; and autobiographical texts.

"Look at your health": outcomes associated with a computer-assisted smoking cessation counseling intervention for community college students.

Community college students represent 44% of all students enrolled in U.S. higher education facilities.

Crown ether-doped sol-gel materials for strontium(II) separation.

Hybrid organic/inorganic sol-gel materials containing an encapsulated crown ether ligand were found to selectively remove 91.4 +/- 1.3% of Sr2+ from a solution containing excess of competing ions such as Ca2+.