Active clinical trials for "Wounds and Injuries"

Background: To compare the pre-season clinical measures with shoulder rotator strength and range of motion between bilateral (swimmers) and unilateral (badminton players) overhead athletes. Design: Prospective cohort study Participants: 42 athletes were enrolled including 24 elite badminton players and 18 elite swimmers Independent variables: A pre-season visit consisted in clinical and isokinetic shoulder strength testing. Clinical testing consisted in the shoulder range of motion (ROM) measurements aIsokinetic internal and external rotator shoulder muscles strength was tested at 60. Conventional and functional (eccentric-to-concentric) ratios (FR) were calculated.

The medical records of 215 patients with spinal cord injury(SCI) at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China were evaluated between January 1, 2016 and December 20, 2019. According to the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria, 101 patients were included. The patients were dichotomized into two groups: complete SCI group and incomplete SCI group, based on the American Spinal Injury Association Guidelines Impairment Scale (AIS) .The investigators retrospectively collected records of urodynamic evaluations of this patients and then analyze the urodynamic parameters,including detrusor overactivity (DO), bladder compliance (BC), bladder-filling sensation, maximum cystometric capacity (MCC), detrusor external sphincter dyssynergia (DESD), maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), detrusor pressure at a maximum urinary flow rate(PdetQmax).

This is retrospective research mainly aims to determine the patterns of symptoms, clinical and radiological findings and outcomes in patients with trigeminal neuropathy following trauma or iatrogenic damage and how this translates into costs for the patient and society, work disability and medication use. The trigeminal nerve and its branches are at risk of damage during multiple dental and maxillofacial procedures: endodontics, extractions, removal of wisdom teeth, implant placement, use of local anaesthesia, orthognatic surgery. In the event of damage to these nerve branches, there is a high risk of developing a neuropathic pain that is considered very disabling for patients and that interferes with daily activities (eating, drinking, speaking, kissing, etc.). Moreover, there are few medicinal or surgical techniques available to eliminate neuropathy or reduce the symptoms. Causal procedures (e.g. the removal of wisdom teeth) are among the most frequently performed surgical procedures. The number of injuries increases every year, partly due to an increase in dental procedures. The often relatively minimal intervention combined with the major impact of these injuries on the patient's quality of life sometimes leads to medico-legal actions. The limited symptom control with current therapies of these post-traumatic neuropathies of the trigeminal nerve causes frustration and impotence in both the patient and the attending physician, which can also lead to medical shopping. Based on chart analysis, this study will examine the causes, possible risk factors and presenting symptoms, how this is reflected in clinical research and examinations, and which treatments are being instituted. Patient records from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department between January 2010 and October 2018 will be checked. In addition, we wish to check the costs incurred by these patients as well as the work disability. To this end, a collaboration is being organised with Christian Mutuality (CM), the largest health insurance provider in Belgium. In order to increase the power of the study, the clinical data from the already coded, retrospective dataset of Prof. Tara Renton, co-investigator, will be transferred to the dataset of this new study.

In this study, the investigators aimed to analyze the demographic characteristics, patterns of injury, and mortality after free fall in the emergency department of the National Taiwan University Hospital, and the affiliations, Hsin-Chu branch, and Yun-lin branch.

Pulmonary contusion caused by severe thoracic trauma is a complex disease. Some patients may be secondary to severe complications such as pulmonary infection or even acute respiratory distress syndrome. At present, there have been no reports on related studies based on Chinese population. In this study, 800 patients with pulmonary contusion will be retrospectively investigated to determine the risk factors and independent risk factors of their poor prognosis, and to construct a prognosis prediction model and scoring criteria.

A prospective cohort minimal risk study to determine the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on outcomes of neurologically injured ICU patients.

Hand and upper extremity injuries are among the most common causes of admission of children to the emergency department since they are the most frequently injured part of body following head in pediatric and adolescent population. Although upper extremity fractures and contusions are the main reasons of pediatric hand injuries, tendon injuries are not also uncommon. There are limited data in the literature about the long-term results of children with flexor tendon injury. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term functional outcomes of children with flexor tendon injury.

Tracking post-traumatic brain injury sequale

The purpose of this study is to test the validity of the Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA), a test of functional cognition in persons with acquired brain injury. We will formally examine the utility, baseline profile and validity of the WCPA with adults ages 21 and above with acquired brain injury for both the WCPA 17 and WCPA 10 versions.

To develop a self-administered tool for assessment of sacral sparing after spinal cord injury (SCI) and to test its validity in individuals with SCI.