African health sciences
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialEffect of Pro-kin visual feedback balance training on balance function of individuals with early Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Patients often present with balance dysfunction. Several studies have applied visual feedback training to stroke patients and demonstrated significant improvement. However, the application of visual feedback balance training in PD patients has not been reported. ⋯ The conventional rehabilitation therapy can improve the balance function of PD patients, but the combination of visual feedback balance training and conventional rehabilitation therapy can improve the balance function more significantly.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of irradiated biological dressings on second-degree burn wounds.
To explore the effect of irradiated biological dressing (IBD) on second degree burn wounds. ⋯ IBD can promote the healing of second-degree burn wounds, improve patient comfort, reduce secondary trauma and wound scarring, and improve patients' quality of life.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of resistance exercise in elderly cancer patients.
To investigate the effects of resistance exercise (RE) in elderly cancer patients (ECPs). ⋯ RE effectively relieved the cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in ECPs, improved their mental state, quality of life and mobility.
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Background: The tuberculosis burden is growing in Nigeria along with its population. For example, Nigeria has the sixth highest TB burden globally, with an estimated 4.3 per cent multi-drug resistance in new cases. This study builds on the existing study that examined academic involvement in tuberculosis research. ⋯ This study carried out an academic publication evaluation with the VOS viewer tool to map bibliometric data for scholarly articles published between 1991 and 2021 on tuberculosis research and used the Biblioshiny app for analytics and plots of authors, sources, and documents to explore the descriptive statistics of tuberculosis literature. The present study delineates that England has the highest collaborating country with Nigeria in the study of tuberculosis over the years and according to the report, the University of Nigeria, the University of Ibadan, and Nnamdi Azikwe University are Nigerian institutions with extensive collaborations. This study concludes with managerial implications for future actions.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of ozone combined with articular injection of sodium hyaluronate on patients with knee osteoarthritis and their inflammatory factors and hemorheological indices.
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common chronic progressive disease. We aimed to evaluate the effects of ozone combined with articular injection of sodium hyaluronate on KOA patients and their inflammatory factors and hemorheological indices. ⋯ Ozone combined with articular injection of sodium hyaluronate has obvious therapeutic effects on KOA.