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Campagna J, Czyszczon K, Little J, Selby C, Wick L, Ferreira D, Oriel K. The physical and psychosocial impact of a school-based running programme for adolescents with disabilities. J Intellect Disabil Res 2024; 68:181-192. [PMID: 37984471 DOI: 10.1111/jir.13104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Adolescents with disabilities have fewer opportunities to participate in community-based fitness programmes. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a school-based running programme at a local middle school in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on fitness and quality of life (QoL) in children with physical and cognitive disabilities in a life-skills classroom. METHODS Nineteen adolescents with diagnosed disabilities including intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome were recruited from three life-skills classrooms to participate in a school-based running programme. The programme was designed to be implemented two times/week for 6 weeks by classroom teachers/aides. Physical therapy faculty and students developed the programme and assisted with implementation. Each session lasted 30 min, consisting of a warm-up and cooldown, relay races, games and timed runs. Pre- and post-test measures included physiological cost index (PCI) and Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™). Pre- and post-test data were compared using Wilcoxon signed rank tests. Each week participants also completed a training log to reflect on the activity for the day. RESULTS Participants demonstrated significant improvements in PCI (P = 0.028) and the PedsQL™ (P = 0.008) following the running programme. CONCLUSIONS Results of this study suggest that participation in a 6-week school-based running programme may improve fitness and QoL in adolescents with disabilities.
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- J Campagna
- Student, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, USA
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- Student, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, USA
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- Student, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, USA
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- Student, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, USA
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- Student, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, USA
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- Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, USA
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Cogswell R, Rhodes A, Alexy T, Shultz J, Martin C, Freitag T, Wick L, John R. A Novel Readmission Risk Score is Highly Predictive of Mortality after Heart Failure Admission. J Heart Lung Transplant 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2018.01.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Trondman AK, Gaillard MJ, Mazier F, Sugita S, Fyfe R, Nielsen AB, Twiddle C, Barratt P, Birks HJB, Bjune AE, Björkman L, Broström A, Caseldine C, David R, Dodson J, Dörfler W, Fischer E, van Geel B, Giesecke T, Hultberg T, Kalnina L, Kangur M, van der Knaap P, Koff T, Kuneš P, Lagerås P, Latałowa M, Lechterbeck J, Leroyer C, Leydet M, Lindbladh M, Marquer L, Mitchell FJG, Odgaard BV, Peglar SM, Persson T, Poska A, Rösch M, Seppä H, Veski S, Wick L. Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling. Glob Chang Biol 2015; 21:676-697. [PMID: 25204435 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Revised: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/31/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We present quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation cover in north-western Europe, western Europe north of the Alps, and eastern Europe for five time windows in the Holocene [around 6k, 3k, 0.5k, 0.2k, and 0.05k calendar years before present (bp)] at a 1° × 1° spatial scale with the objective of producing vegetation descriptions suitable for climate modelling. The REVEALS model was applied on 636 pollen records from lakes and bogs to reconstruct the past cover of 25 plant taxa grouped into 10 plant-functional types and three land-cover types [evergreen trees, summer-green (deciduous) trees, and open land]. The model corrects for some of the biases in pollen percentages by using pollen productivity estimates and fall speeds of pollen, and by applying simple but robust models of pollen dispersal and deposition. The emerging patterns of tree migration and deforestation between 6k bp and modern time in the REVEALS estimates agree with our general understanding of the vegetation history of Europe based on pollen percentages. However, the degree of anthropogenic deforestation (i.e. cover of cultivated and grazing land) at 3k, 0.5k, and 0.2k bp is significantly higher than deduced from pollen percentages. This is also the case at 6k in some parts of Europe, in particular Britain and Ireland. Furthermore, the relationship between summer-green and evergreen trees, and between individual tree taxa, differs significantly when expressed as pollen percentages or as REVEALS estimates of tree cover. For instance, when Pinus is dominant over Picea as pollen percentages, Picea is dominant over Pinus as REVEALS estimates. These differences play a major role in the reconstruction of European landscapes and for the study of land cover-climate interactions, biodiversity and human resources.
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- A-K Trondman
- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, Barlastgatan 11, SE-39182, Kalmar, Sweden
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Mikki N, Abu Rmeileh N, Wick L, Abu Asab N, Hassan Bitar S. Caesarean delivery rates, determinants and indications in Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem 1993 and 2002. East Mediterr Health J 2009. [DOI: 10.26719/2009.15.4.868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mikki N, Abu-Rmeileh NME, Wick L, Abu-Asab N, Hassan-Bitar S. Caesarean delivery rates, determinants and indications in Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem 1993 and 2002. East Mediterr Health J 2009; 15:868-879. [PMID: 20187538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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This study investigated the rising rate of caesarean section (CS) deliveries between 1993 and 2002 (9.4% to 14.4%) and associated factors, including indications for CS and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics based on the register of a major Palestinian teaching hospital. Instrumental deliveries declined from 12.6% to 4.4%. Fetal distress decreased as an indication for CS, while previous CS and breech presentations contributed to the increase. Decision-making for CS needs to frame the benefits and risks of the intervention within the context of women's entire reproductive life-cycle and existing standards of care, avoiding unnecessary and costly CS deliveries to reduce iatrogenic complications and conserve resources.
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- N Mikki
- Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory
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This randomised controlled trial of routine amniotomy was carried out in a developing country setting to investigate the effect of this common procedure on the duration of labour, intra-partum interventions and selected newborn and maternal outcomes. In a Jerusalem teaching hospital, 533 multiparous and 157 nulliparous low-risk women were randomised to either amniotomy or intent to conserve membranes. For multiparae, the median duration from randomisation to full dilatation was 95 and 160 min, respectively in the intervention and control arms (p < 0.001); for nulliparae it was 210 and 270 min, respectively (p < 0.001). In both groups, oxytocin was used less in the intervention arms (p < 0.001), and no difference in mode of delivery and immediate outcomes was detected. However, given the risks of this intervention and these study findings indicating an overall short duration of childbirth, amniotomy should be limited to cases of abnormal progress of labour.
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- N Mikki
- Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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OBJECTIVE This study describes staffing, caseloads and reported routine practices for normal childbirth in Palestinian West Bank (WB) governmental maternity facilities and compares these practices with evidence-based care. METHODS Data on routine childbirth practices in all eight governmental hospitals were obtained through interviews with head obstetricians and midwives. Data on staffing and monthly number of births were collected by phone or personal interview from all 37 WB hospitals. RESULTS Forty-eight percent of WB deliveries took place in crowded and understaffed governmental hospitals. Reported practices were not consistently in line with evidence-based care. Lack of knowledge and structural barriers were reasons for this gap. CONCLUSION The implications of limiting unnecessary interventions in the normal birth process are particularly important in a context of limited access and scarce resources. More skilled birth attendants and a universal commitment to effective care are needed.
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- L Wick
- Institute of Community and Public Health/Birzeit University, Box 154, Ramallah, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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Wick L, Berger M, Knecht H, Glücker T, Ledermann HP. Magnetic resonance signal alterations in the acute onset of heterotopic ossification in patients with spinal cord injury. Eur Radiol 2005; 15:1867-75. [PMID: 15856244 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2769-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2004] [Revised: 03/17/2005] [Accepted: 03/29/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The purpose of our study was to evaluate magnetic resonance (MR) signal characteristics of acutely forming heterotopic ossification (HO) in paralyzed patients. Fourteen patients with spinal cord injury (female n=2, male n=12, mean age 38.3 years) and acute onset of radiographically proven HO had contrast-enhanced 1.5-T MRI within 13.4+/-18.3 days of clinical onset of symptoms. MR signal alterations of affected muscles, fascia, subcutaneous tissue, skin and adjacent bone were evaluated. A diffuse T2-hyperintense signal of multiple muscle groups was seen in all patients (bilateral in 12) involving quadriceps (n=13, 93%), adductors (n=13, 93%) and iliopsoas (n=12, 86%) with contrast enhancement in n=11 (79%), n=8 (57%) and n=8 (57%) patients. All patients had nonenhancing areas (mean size 2 x 3.5 x 5.8 cm) within diffusely enhancing muscles. HO formation occurred around these nonenhancing areas in four patients with computed tomography follow-up. Other MR findings included fascial edema (n=14, 100%), fascial enhancement (n=13, 93%), subcutaneous edema (n=13, 93%), subcutaneous enhancement (n=12, 86%), bone marrow edema (n=5, 36%), and joint effusion (n=12, 86%). MRI reveals mostly bilateral edema and enhancement of muscles, fascia and subcutaneous tissue during acute onset of HO. HO develops in the periphery of well-defined areas of no enhancement.
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- L Wick
- Radiologie, Schweizerisches Paraplegikerzentrum, 6207, Nottwil, Switzerland.
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Eser P, Frotzler A, Zehnder Y, Wick L, Knecht H, Denoth J, Schiessl H. Relationship between the duration of paralysis and bone structure: a pQCT study of spinal cord injured individuals. Bone 2004; 34:869-80. [PMID: 15121019 DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2004.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2003] [Revised: 12/10/2003] [Accepted: 01/05/2004] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to describe bone loss of the separate compartments of trabecular and cortical bone, as well as changes in bone geometry of a large number of spinal cord injured (SCI) individuals. Eighty-nine motor complete spinal cord injured men (24 tetraplegics and 65 paraplegics) with a duration of paralysis of between 2 months and 50 years were included in the study. Distal epiphyses and midshafts of the femur, tibia, and radius were measured by peripheral quantitative computed tomography. The same measurements were performed in a reference group of 21 healthy able-bodied men of the same age range. In the femur and tibia, bone mass, total and trabecular bone mineral density (BMDtot and BMDtrab, respectively) of the epiphyses, as well as bone mass and cortical cross-sectional area of the diaphyses, showed an exponential decrease with time after injury in the spinal cord injured subjects. The decreasing bone parameters reached new steady states after 3-8 years, depending on the parameter. Bone mass loss in the epiphyses was approximately 50% in the femur and 60% in the tibia, while the shafts lost only approximately 35% in the femur and 25% in the tibia. In the epiphyses, bone mass was lost by reducing BMD, while in the shaft bone mass was lost by reducing cortical wall thickness, a process achieved by endosteal resorption advancing at a rate of about 0.25 mm/year within the first 5-7 years after injury. Except for a slight transient decrease in cortical BMD of the femoral and tibial shaft during the first 5 years after the spinal cord lesion, cortical BMD of the spinal cord injured subjects was found to be at reference values. Bone parameters of the radial epiphysis in paraplegic subjects showed no deficits compared to the reference group. Furthermore, a trend for an increased radial shaft diameter suggests periosteal apposition as a consequence of increased loading of the arms.
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- P Eser
- Institute for Clinical Research, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, 6207 Nottwil, Switzerland.
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Riklin C, Baumberger M, Wick L, Michel D, Sauter B, Knecht H. Deep vein thrombosis and heterotopic ossification in spinal cord injury: a 3 year experience at the Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil. Spinal Cord 2003; 41:192-8. [PMID: 12612623 DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of patient data. OBJECTIVES (i) To determine the incidence and time of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) under low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) prophylaxis in spinal cord injury (SCI), (ii) to determine the incidence and time of heterotopic ossification (HO) and (iii) to assess a possible aetiologic relationship in the pathogenesis of DVT and HO. SETTING Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Nottwil. METHODS We analyzed the incidence of DVT and HO in 1209 SCI patients (275 first rehabilitations) at the Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil from 1998 to 2000. Clinical files and laboratory data were scrutinised for particularities preceding DVT and HO. RESULTS The incidence of DVT was 6.55% for first rehabilitation compared to only 1.59% in all patients hospitalised. DVT was complicated by pulmonary embolism (PE) in 1.45% and 0.47% respectively. Incidence of HO was 8% for first rehabilitation and 1.82% for all patients hospitalised. In first rehabilitation patients the peak for DVT occurred around day 30 contrary to HO with a peak around day 120. In single patients HO was identified by MRI as a rapidly progressing process. Laboratory profiles were inflammatory in both HO and DVT. Increased physical activity preceding HO was observed in four patients. In two patients acute HO was complicated by ipsilateral DVT. CONCLUSION Prophylaxis with LMWH and elastic stockings significantly reduces the frequency of DVT during first rehabilitation in SCI. DVT and HO are both associated with laboratory parameters of non-infectious inflammation. The later onset of HO coinciding with ongoing mobilisation, argues for a different pathogenetic mechanism. Acute HO of the hip region appears to favour ipsilateral DVT by well known thrombogenic mechanisms.
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- C Riklin
- Swiss Paraplegic Centre, 6207 Nottwil, Switzerland
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Carcaillet C, Almquist H, Asnong H, Bradshaw RHW, Carrión JS, Gaillard MJ, Gajewski K, Haas JN, Haberle SG, Hadorn P, Müller SD, Richard PJH, Richoz I, Rösch M, Sánchez Goñi MF, von Stedingk H, Stevenson AC, Talon B, Tardy C, Tinner W, Tryterud E, Wick L, Willis KJ. Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle. Chemosphere 2002; 49:845-863. [PMID: 12430662 DOI: 10.1016/s0045-6535(02)00385-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Fire regimes have changed during the Holocene due to changes in climate, vegetation, and in human practices. Here, we hypothesise that changes in fire regime may have affected the global CO2 concentration in the atmosphere through the Holocene. Our data are based on quantitative reconstructions of biomass burning deduced from stratified charcoal records from Europe, and South-, Central- and North America, and Oceania to test the fire-carbon release hypothesis. In Europe the significant increase of fire activity is dated approximately 6000 cal. yr ago. In north-eastern North America burning activity was greatest before 7500 years ago, very low between 7500-3000 years, and has been increasing since 3000 years ago. In tropical America, the pattern is more complex and apparently latitudinally zonal. Maximum burning occurred in the southern Amazon basin and in Central America during the middle Holocene, and during the last 2000 years in the northern Amazon basin. In Oceania, biomass burning has decreased since a maximum 5000 years ago. Biomass burning has broadly increased in the Northern and Southern hemispheres throughout the second half of the Holocene associated with changes in climate and human practices. Global fire indices parallel the increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration recorded in Antarctic ice cores. Future issues on carbon dynamics relatively to biomass burning are discussed to improve the quantitative reconstructions.
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- C Carcaillet
- Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.
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Wick L, Mickell J, Barnes T, Allen J. Pediatric organ donation: impact of medical examiner refusal. Transplant Proc 1995; 27:2539-44. [PMID: 7652921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To examine the national Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) experience regarding Medical Examiner (ME) refusal of organ procurement from potential donors. To review our experience regarding PICU mortalities, organ donation, and impact of the ME on the organ donation process. DESIGN National survey of PICU directors requesting demographics, type of ME system, perceptions of ME responsiveness to organ donation, and data regarding potential donors and their outcomes. Also, a retrospective chart review of all PICU deaths from 1990 to 1992 at a tertiary care center, noting the number of potential organ donors, ME cases, those harvested, rejected, and reason for rejection. PARTICIPANTS PICU directors selected from a list of Pediatric Section members of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. The response rate was 59%. The chart review was performed in a 1000-bed hospital with a 12-bed PICU. RESULTS PICU directors' perceptions of ME responsiveness to organ donation were not determined by size of PICU, area served, type of hospital, ME system, or means of contacting the ME. ME refusal accounted for 15% and 16% of total refusals in the survey and chart review, respectively. Family refusal accounted for 49% and 28% in these same groups. Survey respondents' hints and suggestions to decrease denial and increase organ donation focused on improved communication (61% and 33%), and education (16% and 55%). CONCLUSIONS ME refusal does impact on pediatric organ donation, but not as significantly as family refusal. Increased organ procurement in ME-related cases will require improved communication between MEs, physicians, and the Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs).
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- L Wick
- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center of the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
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