Articles related toMusculoskeletal Medicine and Pain

Coaches and swimmers often seek ways to increase range of motion in the ankles. In this study of 15 healthy adolescent participants, researchers assessed whether applying the muscle energy technique principle of postisometric relaxation improved swimming performance.

A dentist suspected sleep apnea as the cause of his patients’ snoring, enlarged tonsils, excessive daytime sleepiness, mood disturbance, and midface deficiency.

The authors describe the case of an infant with histologic diagnosis of infantile fibrosarcoma who benefitted from significant improvement in symptoms of chemotherapy-induced constipation following osteopathic manipulative treatment.

The authors describe a pediatric patient with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department after a morphine overdose causing renal infarction, acute kidney injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

In this narrative review article, the authors discuss the literature implicating auditory dysfunction in ASD along with results from human study participants and postmortem human brain tissue. In their view, these results implicate significant structural and functional abnormalities in the auditory brainstem in ASD and support the utility of auditory testing to screen for ASD.

Term neonates treated with therapeutic hypothermia (TH) may experience delays in acquiring skills for oral feeding, thus prolonging hospital admission. The authors conducted a pilot study of 12 term neonates to compare length of stay (LOS) in those managed with osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) to LOS in matched historical controls, in order to determine whether OMT could accelerate the transition to full oral feeds.

In this article, the authors describe the Project Healthy Attitudes Produces Positive Youth (HAPPY) pilot program, conducted after school at a public elementary school campus in Solano County, California. From April 2018 to May 2018, first-year medical students from Touro University-California served as “family navigators,” guiding participants through a specially designed 5-week curriculum of didactic lessons, cooking demonstrations, and physical exercises designed for pediatric obesity prevention.