Therapeutic Exercise: Treatment Planning for Progression

Planning as urban therapeutic

In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or `forward' planning: the plan as a statement of what the city ought to become. Using Lacanian-inspired analysis we seek to understand how urban issues may be identified as metaphorical def...

Osteoarthritis and therapeutic exercise.

Predictive therapeutic planning for irreversible electroporation treatment of spontaneous malignant glioma.

PURPOSE Irreversible electroporation (IRE) has been developed as a promising minimally invasive treatment to ablate spontaneous brain tumors with pulsed electric fields in canine patients. The purpose of the study is to determine the Peleg-Fermi parameters needed to incorporate pulse number and pulse duration into the therapeutic planning of IRE. METHODS Seven canine patients were treated wit...

Arthrogryposis: diagnosis and therapeutic planning for patients seeking orthodontic treatment or orthognathic surgery.

Arthrogryposis is the name given to a group of musculoskeletal disorders characterized by multiple joint contractures through the body that are present at birth. There are many causes for congenital limitations of the range of motion of a joint. However, the most common form of arthrogryposis, present in 40% of cases, is a condition called amyoplasia. In many cases, abnormal nerve, muscle, and ...

Exercise treatment for major depression: maintenance of therapeutic benefit at 10 months.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the status of 156 adult volunteers with major depressive disorder (MDD) 6 months after completion of a study in which they were randomly assigned to a 4-month course of aerobic exercise, sertraline therapy, or a combination of exercise and sertraline. METHODS The presence and severity of depression were assessed by clinical interview using the...