Mobilizations And Strengthening For Radiating Hip And Anterior Knee Pain: A Case Report

Research presentation slides: Background and Purpose: The most common joint disorder in the United States is osteoarthritis (OA). Knee OA occurs in 10% men and 13% in women aged 60 years or older. Hip instability is commonly defined as hip joint unsteadiness that may cause pain. Joint restrictions and lack of hip strength may be associated with these two conditions. However, there is limited literature on hip strengthening and mobilizations on positive outcomes with hip instability. Therefore, the purpose of this case report was to utilize hip strengthening and mobilizations interventions on a patient with hip instability and knee OA. Case Description: The patient was a 71-year-old male who presented with radiating hip and knee pain. Lower extremity myotomes, range of motion (ROM), the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS), Single Limb Stance Test (SLST), and Plumb line test were used to evaluate improvements. Interventions implemented included lower extremity strengthening, stretching, manual therapy, and balance training. Outcomes: The patient attended 11 visits over 6 weeks. LEFS improved from 47/80 to 53/80 and SLST on the right leg with eyes open from 7 seconds to 10 seconds. Discussion: Although the patient showed relatively small improvements, he reported a reduction in difficulty and pain during his work and daily living activities throughout the 6-week rehabilitation process. The patient was educated on his posture and proper body mechanics, which may have contributed to his reduction in radiating hip and knee pain. Utilizing hip strengthening and mobilization interventions for treatment of hip instability and knee OA may have positive outcomes but requires further investigation. Future research should focus on lower extremity strengthening and manual therapy for knee OA and hip instability.https://dune.une.edu/pt_studcrpres/1005/thumbnail.jp

Mobilizations And Strengthening For Radiating Hip And Anterior Knee Pain: A Case Report

Background and Purpose: The most common joint disorder in the United States is osteoarthritis (OA). Knee OA occurs in 10% men and 13% in women aged 60 years or older. Hip instability is commonly defined as hip joint unsteadiness that may cause pain. Joint restrictions and lack of hip strength may be associated with these two conditions. However, there is limited literature on hip strengthening and mobilizations on positive outcomes with hip instability. Therefore, the purpose of this case report was to utilize hip strengthening and mobilizations interventions on a patient with hip instability and knee OA. Case Description: The patient was a 71-year-old male who presented with radiating hip and knee pain. Lower extremity myotomes, range of motion (ROM), the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS), Single Limb Stance Test (SLST), and Plumb line test were used to evaluate improvements. Interventions implemented included lower extremity strengthening, stretching, manual therapy, and balance training. Outcomes: The patient attended 11 visits over 6 weeks. LEFS improved from 47/80 to 53/80 and SLST on the right leg with eyes open from 7 seconds to 10 seconds. Discussion: Although the patient showed relatively small improvements, he reported a reduction in difficulty and pain during his work and daily living activities throughout the 6-week rehabilitation process. The patient was educated on his posture and proper body mechanics, which may have contributed to his reduction in radiating hip and knee pain. Utilizing hip strengthening and mobilization interventions for treatment of hip instability and knee OA may have positive outcomes but requires further investigation. Future research should focus on lower extremity strengthening and manual therapy for knee OA and hip instability

The design and synthesis of nuclear localization signal (NLS) mimics

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 28-29.Nuclear import of proteins is a carefully controlled process that is critical for cellular function and regulation. A protein is marked for nuclear entry by a nuclear localization signal (NLS), a peptide motif, which typically consists of one or two small clusters rich in basic amino acids (lysine or arginine). Transport occurs through pores that span the nuclear envelope by a receptor mediated, energy-dependent process. The goal of this study is to synthesize mimics of the NLS from aminoalkylated dihydroxybenzene fragments joined with linkers of various length, rigidity, and directional constraint. The project is part of a larger effort to understand the molecular recognition in nuclear protein import; its emphasis is to study the role of charge placement, orientation, and linker features in NLS recognition. Modeled after the NLS of the HIV-1 matrix protein, the proposed molecules can mimic the side chain placement of the NLS template. Candidates are evaluated for inhibition in an in vitro nuclear import assay. Inhibition was not observed for all the candidates despite the presence of positively charged clusters. The results suggest inhibition is not solely based on the presence of positive charge and confirms the hypothesis that other factors, such as orientation, are important

Efficient Generation of Coherent Stokes Field in Hydrogen Gas-Filled Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibres

In this paper, we study of the coherent Stokes generation in a transient Raman regime by Hydrogen gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibres (HC-PCFs) configuration. The temporal and spatial evolution of the pump and Stokes field envelopes as well as the coherence and population inversion is numerically observed. The influence of the pump pulse width and gas pressure on the energy exchange along fiber and Stokes generation efficiency is investigated

A hybrid model for aspect-based sentiment analysis on customer feedback: research on the mobile commerce sector in Vietnam

Feedback and comments on mobile commerce applications are extremely useful and valuable information sources that reflect the quality of products or services to determine whether data is positive or negative and help businesses monitor brand and product sentiment in customers’ feedback and understand customers’ needs. However, the increasing number of comments makes it increasingly difficult to understand customers using manual methods. To solve this problem, this study builds a hybrid research model based on aspect mining and comment classification for aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) to deeply comprehend the customer and their experiences. Based on previous classification results, we first construct a dictionary of positive and negative words in the e-commerce field. Then, the POS tagging technique is applied for word classification in Vietnamese to extract aspects of model commerce related to positive or negative words. The model is implemented with machine and deep learning methods on a corpus comprising more than 1,000,000 customer opinions collected from Vietnam's four largest mobile commerce applications. Experimental results show that the Bi-LSTM method has the highest accuracy with 92.01%; it is selected for the proposed model to analyze the viewpoint of words on real data. The findings are that the proposed hybrid model can be applied to monitor online customer experience in real time, enable administrators to make timely and accurate decisions, and improve the quality of products and services to take a competitive advantage

Psychological Capital and Quality of Work Life among employees in public sector: evidence from Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports

In the modern world, employee s organizational performance is seen as one of the most important factor in developing an organization for both public and private sectors. The literature review also showed a lack of empirical research on the topic in the context of Vietnam, especially in the public sector about PsyCap in relation with Performance. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of PsyCap and Quality of work life on employee performance in public agencies such as Department of Culture and Sport in Ho Chi Minh City. 28 questions with the seven-point Likert scale were used to the research. Respondents in this study were 157 employees working full-time in this Department in Ho Chi Minh City. SPSS 20 and AMOS 20 were used to analyze the collected data. The research findings proved the significant effect of PsyCap Performance as well as QWL and performance in the public organizations in Ho Chi Minh City. This study provides not only better understanding of the subject but also the practical implications for personnel management of the organization