Publications by authors named "Yohei Kusaba"
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- Silent manipulation is a technique for treating frozen shoulders while the patient is awake, involving ultrasound-guided nerve blocks.
- A study at Yokohama City University Hospital followed 53 patients who received this treatment and found significant improvements in shoulder movement and patient satisfaction over 1 year.
- Results indicated that the experience level of the practitioner significantly affects treatment outcomes, highlighting the importance of skilled professionals in performing the procedure effectively.
Background: Prevention of pitching-related elbow pain in youth baseball players is important. Overhead pitching involves a whole-body motion, including head-neck rotation. A limited range of motion of head-neck rotation may cause inefficient pitching motion; however, this association is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevious work suggested that tenogenic differentiation of tendon stem/progenitor cells (TSPCs) was suppressed by upregulated expression of the angiogenic marker vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that anti-VEGF antibody, bevacizumab, promotes in vitro tenogenic differentiation and maturation of two distinct types of TSPCs, tendon proper-derived cells (TDCs), and paratenon-derived cells (PDCs) originating from rat Achilles tendon. TDCs and PDCs were isolated from the tendon proper and the paratenon of rat Achilles tendons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUltrasound-assisted surgery is becoming an established tool in the medical field. The addition of imagery to ultrasound-assisted surgery may enable one to perform a procedure in a safer and more accurate manner. This can be achieved through fusion imaging (fusion), a technology that synchronizes MRI or CT images with ultrasound images.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Overhead-throwing athletes are at risk of elbow injury because of valgus stress, leading to unstable ulnar nerves and neuropathy. Studies regarding ulnar nerve damage/displacement have been performed primarily in adults.
Objective: To determine the prevalence and related factors associated with ulnar nerve displacement at the elbow in young baseball players.