Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of stratified blended physiotherapy in patients with non-specific low back pain: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial

“… 4 Telerehabilitation has often been offered in addition to in-person care—complementing usual care rather than replacing it altogether. 5 , 6 Reports often describe asynchronous (versus synchronous) care—providing a different patient experience. 4 , 7 – 12 Reimbursement expansion during the initial stages of the pandemic created a window of opportunity to study the feasibility of and patient satisfaction with telerehabilitation.…”

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Outpatient Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy Synchronous Telemedicine

Tenforde¹,

Borgstrom²,

Polich³

et al. 2020

Am J Phys Med Rehabil

226

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The COVID-19 pandemic transformed healthcare delivery, including rapid expansion of telehealth. Telerehabilitation, defined as therapy provided by physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech and language pathology, was rapidly adopted with goals to provide access to care and limit contagion. The purpose of this brief report was to describe feasibility of and satisfaction with telerehabilitation. Two-hundred five participants completed online surveys following a telerehabilitation visit. Most commonly, participants were women (53.7%), 35-64 years old, and completed PT (53.7%) for established visits of 30-44 minutes in duration for primary impairments in sports, lower limb injuries, and pediatric neurology. Overall high ratings (“excellent” or “very good” responses) were observed for all patient-centered outcome metrics (ranging 93.7-99%) and value in future telehealth visit (86.8%) across telerehabilitation visits. Women participated more frequently and provided higher ratings than men participants. Other benefits included eliminating travel time, incorporating other healthcare advocates, and convenience delivering care in familiar environment to pediatric patients. Technology and elements of hands-on aspects of care were observed limitations. Recognizing reduced indirect costs of care that telerehabilitation may provide along with high patient satisfaction are reasons policy makers should adopt these services into future healthcare delivery models.

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“…Lumbar degenerative disease caused by lumbar disc degeneration has seriously affected the life of patients and has become a serious social problem, but both surgery and conservative treatment did not fundamentally reverse disc degeneration [5,6]. However, with the development of molecular mechanisms and genetic engineering of disc degeneration, it is possible to treat or reverse disc degeneration at the gene level.…”

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Effect of Lentivirus-mediated GDF5 Transfection on Differentiation of Rabbit Nucleus Pulposus Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Zhu

Zhao

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Abstract Background: Disc degenerative disease is a common senile degenerative disease, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients.The purpose of this study is to observe the biological and cytological characteristics of rabbit nucleus pulposus mesenchymal stem cells (NPMSCs), and to determine the effect of growth differentiation factor 5(GDF5) on the differentiation of rabbit NPMSCs by lentivirus transfection.Methods: In vitro culture model of rabbit NPMSCs was established and NPMSCs cells were identified by flow cytometry (FCM)and quantitative real-time PCR(qRT-PCR). Then NPMSCs were divided into three groups: lentiviral vector carrying GDF5 was used to transfect NPMSCs, to determine the transfection rate, which was recorded as transfection group, and the NPMSCs transfected with ordinary lentiviral vector was recorded as control group, NPMSCs without processing was recorded as normal group. FCM, qRT-PCR and Western Blot(WB) were used to detected the change of NPMSCs.Results: The transfected NPMSCs by GDF5 became longer and narrower, and the cell density decreased,and the positive rate of GDF5 in the transfected group was significantly higher than that in the other two groups (P<0.05). The mRNA expression of KRT8, KRT18, KRT19 in the transfected group was significantly higher than the other two groups(P<0.05),the result of WB were the same to qRT-PCR. Conclusions: GDF5 can induce the differentiation of NPMSCs and repair degenerative intervertebral discs. Lentiviral vector carrying GDF5 can be integrated into the chromosome genome of NPMSCs and promote differentiation of NPMSCs into nucleus pulposus cells(NPCs).

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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of stratified blended physiotherapy in patients with non-specific low back pain: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial

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Optimizing telehealth pain care after COVID-19

Optimizing telehealth pain care after COVID-19

Outpatient Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy Synchronous Telemedicine

Effect of Lentivirus-mediated GDF5 Transfection on Differentiation of Rabbit Nucleus Pulposus Mesenchymal Stem Cells

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