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.

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.

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+.