Chemsex and its impact on gay and bisexual men who have sex with men: Findings from an online survey in Belgium.

Objectives: The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of sexualized drug use, or chemsex, in a wide group of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) in Belgium. It examined which drugs gbMSM used before and during sex, the frequency with which they used it, whether they experienced non-consensual sex, and evaluated the impact of chemsex on the health and professional and social lives of respondents.

Methods: We conducted an online survey among Belgian gbMSM.

Quasi-experimental pilot study to improve mobility and balance in recurrently falling nursing home residents by voluntary non-targeted side-stepping exercise intervention.

Background: Side-stepping is a potential exercise program to reduce fall risk in community-dwelling adults in their seventies, but it has never been tested in nursing home residents. This was a pilot quasi-experimental study to examine the feasibility and potential mobility and balance benefits of an intervention based on voluntary non-targeted side-stepping exercises in nursing home residents who fall recurrently.

Methods: Twenty-two participants were recruited and non-randomly assigned to an intervention group ([Formula: see text]11, side-stepping exercises, STEP) participating in an 8-week protocol and to a control group ([Formula: see text]11, usual physiotherapy care, CTRL).

Fine adaptive precision grip control without maximum pinch strength changes after upper limb neurodynamic mobilization.

Before and immediately after passive upper limb neurodynamic mobilizations targeting the median nerve, grip ([Formula: see text]) and load ([Formula: see text]) forces applied by the thumb, index and major fingers (three-jaw chuck pinch) were collected using a manipulandum during three different grip precision tasks: grip-lift-hold-replace (GLHR), vertical oscillations (OSC), and vertical oscillations with up and down collisions (OSC/COLL/u, OSC/COLL/d). Several parameters were collected or computed from [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Maximum pinch strength and fingertips pressure sensation threshold were also examined.

Timed Up and Go and Six-Minute Walking Tests with Wearable Inertial Sensor: One Step Further for the Prediction of the Risk of Fall in Elderly Nursing Home People.

Assessing the risk of fall in elderly people is a difficult challenge for clinicians. Since falls represent one of the first causes of death in such people, numerous clinical tests have been created and validated over the past 30 years to ascertain the risk of falls. More recently, the developments of low-cost motion capture sensors have facilitated observations of gait differences between fallers and nonfallers.

Weight loss as a treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea.

Obesity is a major health problem in well-developed societies. It is frequently associated with metabolic, cardiovascular and psychological comorbid conditions. Besides, it is known that obesity constitutes a risk factor for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).