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Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rezmovitz, MSc November 2003
... untrained (defined as participating in exercise less than 2 hours per week) and did not meet any of the exclusion ... time the subject maintained platform stability within ± 0.2 for a maximum of 30 seconds. Each trial was terminated if ... the railing, could not maintain stability within ± 0.2 psi, completed the 30-second trial, or opened her eyes ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC November 2003
... concern following waterborne outbreaks in Walkerton [1,2]  and North Battleford. [3,4] Cryptosporidiosis (long ...
Editorials / BY: Jack Taunton, MD November 2003
... Clinics were surveyed for incidence of injuries over a 2-year period, quantifying training limitation and training ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... 45(5):210  I agreed with Dr George Price ( BCMJ 2003; 45[2]:72-73 ) “that if good clinical teachers are to be ...
Letters / BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD November 2003
... for the lazy physician who will cream off the top with a 2-minute interview and leave the more time-consuming, ...
Letters / BY: Edward P. Kardera, MD November 2003
It has been 2 years since I was required to retire from medicine ... of life I enjoy. Reflecting on all the events of the last 2 years, there are several thoughts that I wish to share with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... asthma during the course of their disease. [2]  Exercise-induced asthma seems to have an increased ... asthma symptoms. These symptoms may last 1 to 2 hours following the cessation of exercise. High ventilatory ... of active patients with exertional dyspnea ( Table 2 ). Unlike exercise-induced asthma, these entities can limit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study in people with diabetes. [2]  Of more than 19 000 hypertensive patients, both men and ... of follow-up, the fact that the study was stopped nearly 2 years earlier than other statin trials, that blood pressure ... MRC/BHF Heart Protection study in people with diabetes, [2]  there was a significant reduction of 33% in vascular ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Liu-Ambrose, MSc, PT, PhD (C) December 2003
... humans with untreated complete ACL tears.  • Group 2—12 sheep with three types of ACL reconstruction: ... (LAD); Leeds-Keio artificial ligament.  • Group 3—2 humans with failed ACL (semitendinous) reconstruction. In ... absence of corpuscles and free nerve endings. In Group 2, mechanoreceptors were present in ACL reconstructions with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Taunton, MD December 2003
... have been recommended for patellar tendinopathy. [2-4]  The most effective of these treatments to date is a ... or if there is a complete rupture of the patellar tendon. [2,3] Objective Overall, the conservative and surgical ... of 2000 shocks each at maximum energy level 4 (0.17 mJ/mm 2 ). The CG received three to five treatment sessions of 2000 ...