Introduction: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of mortality in Malaysia. Psychological risk factors are associated with detrimental outcomes CAD. Our study aimed to evaluate procedural anxiety and depression levels among subjects who underwent coronary angioplasty. Methods: A single-centre prospective cohort was conducted on patients electively admitted a tertiary hospital Mal...

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a technique used worldwide to treat several types of chronic neuropathic pain refractory to any conservative treatment. Objective: The aim of this data collection is to enforce evidence of SCS effectiveness in treating neuropathic chronic pain and the very low percentage of undesired side effects of complications reported in our case series suggests that all imp...

We report on the use and performance of an objective measure of functional impairment, the timed up and go (TUG) test, in clinical practice for patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). We illustrate nine representative patients with lumbar DDD, who were selected from an ongoing prospective study, to report our clinical experience with the TUG test. In addition, a preliminary sample...

OBJECTIVE To validate EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BR23 questionnaires and to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of women with breast cancer in Singapore during their first 4 years of post-diagnosis and treatments. METHODS A quantitative and cross-descriptive sectional study. All of 170 subjects were recruited in a Singapore tertiary cancer center. The European Organization for...

AIM To study associations between health-related quality of life (HRQoL), frequency of illness, and weight in primary school children in southern Germany. METHODS Data from baseline measurements of the outcome evaluation of a teacher based health promotion programme ("Join the Healthy Boat") were analysed. Parents provided information about their children's HRQoL (KINDL(R), EQ5D-Y Visual Anal...

Background: Prehabilitation has been shown to improve functional capacity.1 This demonstrated reduce postoperative complications, hospital length of stay, and emergency admission rates.2 There is currently poor evidence on the effect health-related quality life.3 Methods: In 2019, University Hospitals Bristol Weston (UHBW) set up a physiotherapy-led prehabilitation service those listed for majo...