Spine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Mini-intervention for subacute low back pain: two-year follow-up and modifiers of effectiveness.
Randomized controlled trial. ⋯ Mini-intervention is an effective treatment for subacute LBP. Despite lack of a significant effect on intensity of low back pain and perceived disability, mini-intervention, including proper recommendations and advice, according to the "active approach," is able to reduce LBP-related costs. The perceived risk of not recovering was the strongest modifier of treatment effect. In alleviating pain, the intervention was most effective among the patients with a high perceived risk of not recovering.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Early versus late enteral feeding in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury: a pilot study.
A prospective randomized clinical pilot study to compare early versus late enteral feeding in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury. ⋯ This pilot study failed to detect any differences in the incidence of infection, nutritional status, feeding complications, number of ventilator hours, or length of stay between patients receiving early versus late initiation of enteral feeding. These data will assist in the determination of an adequate sample size for future studies.