Purpose: To investigate the effects of early ambulation on sleep quality in patients after liver resection via a quantitative study. Methods: A total 120 with hepatic tumors who underwent were randomly divided into two groups. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to score and compare physical activities between Results: Compared control group, started had significantly better qual...

This prospective study of 90 patients after lumbar metrizamide myelography indicates that the semiupright position at 45 degrees in bed or early ambulation reduces postprocedure vomiting but does not reduce the frequency of headache. Ambulatory patients have less frequent nausea than patients kept in bed.

BACKGROUND Hip fractures are common in the elderly and are likely to become more prevalent as the US population ages. Early functional status is an indicator of longer term outcome, yet in-hospital predictors of functional recovery, particularly time of surgery and composition of support staff, after hip fracture surgery have not been well studied. METHODS Ninety-nine consecutive patients und...

CONTEXT A novel spring-loaded-crutch design may provide patients additional forward velocity, relative to traditional axillary crutches; however, this idea has not yet been evaluated. OBJECTIVE To quantify elastic potential energy stored by spring-loaded crutches during crutch-ground contact and determine whether this energy increases forward velocity for patients during crutch ambulation. Be...

The purpose of this investigation was two-fold: 1) to compare the metabolic cost (VO2), heart rate (HR), and self-selected speed of ambulation of trans-tibial amputees (TTAs) with those of non-amputee subjects; and 2) to determine whether a correlation exists between either stump length or prosthesis mass and the energy cost of ambulation at the self-selected ambulation pace of TTAs. Subjects w...

Mills, Cally ; Wright, Christine; Newell, Caroline . Australian Nursing Journal 19.7 (Feb 2012): 26-7. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers Hide highlighting Abstract (summary) TranslateAbstract Recent literature indicates ambulation prior to four hours is preferred practice and does not impact negatively at the femoral site (Augustin et al 2010; Schiks et at 2009; Gillane et al 2009)...

Knee osteoarthritis is a disease that can be initiated along multiple pathways that ultimately leads to pain, loss of function and breakdown of the articular cartilage. While the various pathways have biological and structural elements, the mechanical pathways play a critical role in the development of the disease. The forces and motions occurring during ambulation provide mechanical signals se...

The traditional dogma of putting mobile patients with acute deep vein thrombosis into bed for several days has been challenged by some studies that showed a better clinical outcome with walking exercises under good compression. Repeated lung scans did not show an increased risk of new pulmonary embolism. There was a faster and more intense reduction of pain and swelling and a clear quality-of-l...