Successful Prehabilitation: A Noble Goal

Successful ageing in Singapore--a viable goal?

Neuromuscular prehabilitation to prevent osteoarthritis after a traumatic joint injury.

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) is a process resulting from direct forces applied to a joint that cause injury and degenerative changes. An estimated 12% of all symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip, knee, and ankle can be attributed to a post-traumatic cause. Neuromuscular prehabilitation is the process of improving neuromuscular function to prevent development of PTOA after an initi...

Infants' goal anticipation during failed and successful reaching actions.

The ability to interpret and predict the actions of others is crucial to social interaction and to social, cognitive, and linguistic development. The current study provided a strong test of this predictive ability by assessing (1) whether infants are capable of prospectively processing actions that fail to achieve their intended outcome, and (2) how infants respond to events in which their init...

Surgery: A “Noble“ Profession

Yet, when I began to set my thoughts in order, the concept of surgery and what it takes to be a surgeon proved to be elusive. Each word or definition suggested more words and more description. It began to look as if there was just too much material to describe this entity, almost “too many notes.”1 The topic would not reduce itself. I became engrossed with finding a way to adequately describe s...

Prehabilitation for Prevention of Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction?

Anesthesiology, V 123 • No 1 7 July 2015 S URGERY sets the old brain on fire and prehabilitation is a fire retardant. That is conclusion of an interesting study by Kawano et al.1 in this issue of AnEsthEsioloGY. specifically, they hypothesized that the old brain is more vulnerable than a young one to surgery-induced neuroinflammation because its innate immune cells, principally microglia, devel...