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Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... patients hospitalized at any given time. This represents 6.5% overall reduction in the bed base, or 11% of the ... • The average age of hospitalist patients was 64.5 compared with family physician patients at 72.3. • During ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Ryan, MSc November 2003
... old, and 15.4% had shoes that were 1 to 2 years old. Only 5.1% wore shoes more than 2 years old. The majority of runners in 2000 (77.5% of 844) preferred running on roads, 20.1% preferred ... reported running 1 day per week, and 0.9% reported running 5 days per week. In 2000, one-half of those reporting an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: N. Miller, BSc/BPHE November 2003
... year. Running imposes a ground reaction force of 2 to 2.5 times body weight with each step, [2]  meaning the ... a Kangoo Jumps group (designated KG; n = 12; age 25.4 ± 5.3 years; weight 67.4 ± 18.0 kg) and a group using normal ... first session began with a short jog (30 seconds) and a 4.5-minute walk, repeated 7 times. The participants’ running ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rezmovitz, MSc November 2003
... caused by reduced sensation and vestibular dysfunction [5]  is a risk factor for falls and fall-related injuries, ... deconditioning, physical inactivity, or chronic disease. [5] Increased fall rate is associated with mobility ... order to maintain posture and not limit walking ability. [5] Exercise assists in the maintenance of personal ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC November 2003
... to parasitic agents such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. [5]  BC also has had the highest rate of enteric ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
In the  BCMJ 2003; 45(5):210  I agreed with Dr George Price ( BCMJ 2003; ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... swimming, tennis, weightlifting, and water polo. [5,6]  Another effective tactic for attenuating EIA attacks ... after 6 to 12 minutes of exercise and are most severe 5 to 10 minutes after exercise. In addition, about 50% of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... 300 (81% men) with cholesterol (TC) concentrations below 6.5 mmol (average TC was 5.5 mmol/L, LDL-C 3.4 mmol/L and HDL-C 1.3 mmol/L) were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Liu-Ambrose, MSc, PT, PhD (C) December 2003
... factor in functional instability after ACL injuries. [4,5] Both proprioception and kinesthesia are specialized types ... of the cruciate and collateral ligaments (at loads of 5 to 40 Newtons) elicits activity in the low-threshold ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Taunton, MD December 2003
... program with eccentric drop-squat exercises. [5]  While most cases can be treated conservatively, surgical ... inches and the mean change for the treatment group was 1.5 inches. VISA score Significant results were seen in the ... control group was 49.9 pretreatment, 54.3 posttreatment at 5 weeks, and 53.2 at 12 weeks. The mean VISA score for the ...