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J Barnett

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Walking through gait analysis.

As medical technology advances, the assessment of complex tasks such as walking is becoming easier. Today's clinical gait analysis laboratory provides the essential tools for the quantification of pathologic gait patterns. Dynamic joint motion, muscle activity, and the forces acting on the body are documented via complex computer and camera systems. The information gained from the gait analysis is essential to the understanding of each individual's unique gait pattern. Gait analysis provides both the patient and the physician with valuable information that can be used to plan better treatment regimens.

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Objective assessment of spine function following industrial injury. A prospective study with comparison group and one-year follow-up.

Objective functional capacity measurement techniques were used to guide a treatment program for a group of 66 chronic back pain patients. These patients were compared with a group of 38 chronic patients who were not administered the treatment program. Outcome data were collected by telephone survey at an average 1 year follow-up. In addition, functional capacity measures were collected for treatment group patients on admission and follow-up evaluations. Results demonstrated that the functional capacity measures collected for the treatment group improved in approximately 80% of the patients. These changes were also accompanied by positive changes in psychologic measures. In addition, at 1 year follow-up, the treatment group had approximately twice the rate of patients who returned to work, relative to the comparison group. Additional surgery rates were comparable for both groups (6% in the treatment and 7% in the comparison group), but the frequency of additional health-care professional visits was substantially higher in the comparison group. The findings suggest that quantitative functional capacity measures can give objective evidence of patient physical abilities and degree of effort and can significantly guide the clinician in administering an effective treatment program.

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Quantification of lumbar function. Part 6: The use of psychological measures in guiding physical functional restoration.

The present article reviews the use of psychologic measures in guiding a functional restoration treatment program with chronic low-back pain patients. The results of the first 134 consecutive patients completing this program are reviewed. These results demonstrate that various psychologic measures paralleled improvement in physical function. Of particular interest is the finding that various Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scales that were initially clinically elevated showed a significant decrease to nonelevated levels after treatment. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed, along with the important observation that one should avoid assuming that a single psychologic test can reliably be used as the sole predictor variable in clinical cases.

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Breast Neoplasms↗