Chronic low back pain is a major public health problem worldwide. In addition to the high prevalence of this condition, studies are showing that patients with chronic pain present with less quality of life, lower levels in general well-being scales, and higher use of health care services. Psychological factors have an important role in an individual's experience of LBP and its impact on their functioning and quality of life. To deal with the suffering, patients use strategies to manage their pain and its impact, also known as coping. The purpose of this review is to examine the coping strategies of patient with chronic low back pain.

Background: The subacromial impingement syndrome occupies a very large percentage of shoulder pathologies as the rates even reach 44 to 60 percent. It has been proven that in painful conditions, especially in subacromial impingement syndrome, there seems to be an alteration of the person's motor and neuromuscular control ability, especially of the scapula, as changes are observed in the muscle activation of the scapulothoracic muscles, significantly affecting the patient's functional levels. The main objective of this review is to examine the currently available research on the rehabilitation of the neuromuscular control of the scapulothoracic muscles in people with Subacromial Impingement Syndrome and to clarify which techniques can improve motor control of the scapula. Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Google Scholar were search. All types of study designs were included, except of case reports and case series. The using medical subject headings were ‘impingement syndrome’, ‘shoulder impingement syndrome’ and ‘Exercises scapula stabilization', 'Scapula exercises', 'Scapula rehabilitation'. Results: The initial search strategy generated 9351 references after duplicate removal. All 324 were kept for full-text review, 6 unique studies were included in the review. Conclusion: The reported research on restoring neuromuscular control of the scapulothoracic muscles in individuals with subacromial impingement syndrome appears to be very encouraging as their findings show an increase in the individual's ability to voluntarily and involuntarily control their scapula kinematics through better activation of the scapulothoracic muscles. Key words: Subacromial impingement syndrome; neuromuscular control; scapula; scapulothoracic muscles; functional capacity

Background: The problem of pain in the lumbar region is a big part of physiotherapy, which aims not only to relieve patients from pain but also to restore them to their previous levels of functionality. Various interventions are used for this physiotherapy treatment, one of them is electrotherapy. This review aims to investigate the effectiveness of interferential current (IFC) in pain management in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). Methods: A search was conducted in electronic databases Google Scholar, PubMed, PEDro, Science Direct, and Cochrane Library in Greek and English language, combining keywords of the central axes of the issue such as "chronic low back pain" or "CLBP", "pain relief", "electrotherapy", "interferential current " or "IFC". Results: Ten RCT studies, which examine the effectiveness of IFC were included in this review. A total of 807 patients were measured. Most studies (n=6) compared IFC with placebo and one of those combined placebo IFC with an exercise program. Three studies compared the different types of IFC and one study IFC with usual caressing. Conclusion: The results of this review demonstrated that IFC showed a positive effect on reducing pain and improving the functioning of patients with CLBP. This approach presents to be a sufficient intervention method combined or not with other therapies.

Background: The aim of the present review is to identify the relationship of an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program (exCR) and quality of life in patients after myocardial infarction. Design: The following databases were searched: Medline databases (via PubMed), and Scopus /Elsevier. Additional relevant research was also identified by direct search in scientific journals available online. The review included studies designed to primary evaluate the quality of life of an exCR program with no limitation about the publication date. Case reports and case series were excluded. Data were extracted by one reviewer and checked by a second reviewer. Results: The results are presented as per the PRISMA reporting guideline. The articles that finally met all the inclusion criteria and were analyzed, after the screening of the title, the summary and the whole text, were 6. A total of 694 patients who received exCR were examined in this review. Discussion: The present review indicates that an exCR program improves the quality of life for the patients with myocardial infarction and that quality of life improvements have a bidirectional relationship with increased physical activity and vocational status.

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