High Prevalence of Low Back Pain in College Rifle Athletes by Bailey Urbach, Cody Mansfield, Mica Harr, Matthew S. Briggs, James Onate, Laura Boucher

“…# Background The sport of rifle places unique physical demands on its athletes relative to other collegiate sports, including maintaining lumbar-straining positions for extended time. Anecdotal reports of low back pain (LBP) are common among collegiate rifle athletes, but the prevalence of LBP in this population has not yet been established in the literature…”
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Estimating the met need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in three payams of Torit County, South Sudan: a facility-based, retrospective cross-sectional study by Pontius Bayo, Imose Itua, Suzie Paul Francis, Kofi Boateng, Elijo Omoro Tahir, Abdulmumini Usman

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Analisis Sentimen Bahasa Indonesia pada Twitter Menggunakan Struktur Tree Berbasis Leksikon by Feby Tri Saputra, Yani Nurhadryani, Sony Hartono Wijaya, Defina Defina

“…Metode berbasis tree diujikan pada data dengan lintas topik seperti data twit Pilgub Jabar 2018, Pilpres 2019, dan pandemik COVID-19. …”
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Alterocupar-se: obliquação e transicionalidade na experiência literária by Alexandre Nodari

“…En primer lugar, trátase de pensar por intermedio de una lectura transversal de la teoría de la enunciación, la oblicuación como condición fundamental de la reflexividad - la cual sería, para jugar con las palabras, un reflejo à la oblicuación. …”
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Participación en medios y TIC: intereses y expectativas de niños y niñas by Andrea Lafaurie-Molina, Rocío López-Ordosgoitia, Diana Alexandra Giraldo-Cadavid, Diana Marcela Aristizábal-García

“…Se trata de una participación heterogénea, convergente y multiplataforma que incluye actividades como generar contenidos, dar likes, hacer suscripciones, navegar, buscar tareas o simplemente ver vídeos, fotos, jugar, divertirse y socializar, mostrando intereses, subjetividades y formas de socialización infantiles en medios y TIC.…”
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Sarcopenia as a Prognostic Factor of Hepatotoxicity and Lower Survival Rate in Chemotherapy of Pancreatic Cancer by A. A. Klunichenko, A. P. Seryakov, A. A. Seryakova, S. M. Demidov

“…Muscle tissue area (cm2) was estimated with two consecutive axial slices at the level of L3 lumbar vertebra. Sarcopenia was determined with the L3 skeletal muscle index (L3SMI) calculated as a ratio of skeletal muscle area at the L3 vertebra to patient’s height squared. …”
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Sarcopenia and fat tissue distribution in patients with colorectal cancer by V. K. Lyadov, V. N. Yegiyev, A. P. Seryakov, O. V. Kucheruk, Ye. S. Darda, A. Z. Negardinov

“…Body composition data, including amount of skeletal musculature, subcutaneous fat tissue and visceral fat, estimated at single axial native CT-image at the level of 3rd lumbar vertebra (L3) by specialized software. Sarcopenia was detected as a state at which the volume of sceletal musculature is at the range below 2 standard deviations from the mean level for healthy adults. …”
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Percutaneous Vertebroplasty under Local Anesthesia for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: A Prospective Interventional Study by Dhruv Gupta, Varun Kumar Agarwal

“…Sixty-five percent of patients had lumbar vertebral fractures and 35% had dorsal vertebral fractures. …”
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Reporte de un caso clínico de Holoprosencefalia by Lissette Chan Guevara

“…Hipertonia, retardo del desarrollo psicomotor. Punción lumbar, resultado, meningitis bacteriana se inicia manejo antibiótico. …”
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Proprioceptive Reweighting and Postural Control are Impaired Among Elite Athletes Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by Benoit Attalin, Telma Sagnard, Eric Laboute, Nicolas Forestier, Olivier Rémy-Néris, Brice Picot

“…., able to reweight proprioceptive signals from the ankle to the lumbar region), whereas an eRPW >105% classified individuals as rigid (i.e., maintaining an ankle dominant strategy). …”
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Physically Active Adults with Low Back Pain do not Demonstrate Altered Deadlift Mechanics: A Novel Application of Myotonometry to Estimate Inter-Muscular Load Sharing by Jared M. McGowen, Stephanie R. Albin, Carrie W. Hoppes, Jeffrey S. Forsse, John Abt, Shane L. Koppenhaver

“… # Hypothesis/Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the stiffness of trunk (lumbar multifidus \[LM\] and longissimus thoracis \[LT\]) and lower extremity (vastus lateralis \[VL\] and biceps femoris \[BF\]) muscles between individuals with and without LBP during the lying, standing, and deadlifting body positions…”
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¿Son los criterios de la Economía del bienestar satisfactorios? by Jorge A. Rodríguez Soto

“…Ante esto surge la economía del bienestar, como anexo a la teoría neoclásica, brindando un criterio de pretensión objetiva para juzgar y comparar elecciones de política y arreglos sociales. …”
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Preparation For Flight: The Physical Profile of Pre-Professional and Professional Circus Artists in the United States by Stephanie J Greenspan, Melanie I Stuckey

“…Generally, males ASAB demonstrated greater shoulder flexibility and upper body functional strength while females ASAB had greater hip and lumbar flexibility and hip strength. No measures showed consistent declines with increasing age, though some showed differences between adolescents and adults…”
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Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis incidentally diagnosed by video-associated lung surgery for lung cancer: A case report by Katsuhiro Itogawa, Shintaro Sato, Hideaki Yamakawa, Keiichi Akasaka, Masako Amano, Akiko Adachi, Hidekazu Matsushima

“…A 76-year-old male with a history of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, and lumbar canal stenosis was presented with a 25mm right lower lobe nodule identified through a computed tomography conducted at an outpatient clinic. …”
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Clinical Characteristic of Patients Underwent Bone Mineral Density Examination in Prof. Dr. R. Soeharso Orthopaedic Hospital in 2022-2023: A Cross-Sectional Study by R. Andhi Prijosedjati, Pamudji Utomo, Leli Sabariyah, Ahmad Fauzi

“…The variables included age, gender, body mass index (BMI), BMD T-score from the lumbar spine, hip, and forearm, frequency and location of fragility fracture (FF), osteoporosis frequency, and fracture risk assessment (FRAX) score for major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) and hip fracture. …”
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Lumbopelvic Stability and Trunk Muscle Contractility of Individuals with Chronic Ankle Instability by Ryan S McCann, Kelly Johnson, Ashley M B Suttmiller

“…Diagnostic ultrasound imaging was used to assess transversus abdominis (TrA) and lumbar multifidus (LM) muscle contractility. A percent change in contraction thickness from rested to contracted conditions was calculated for each muscle. …”
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Platelet-rich fibrin and silver nano-particles loaded chitosan treatment for post- laminectomy epidural scar adhesions: in vivo rats study model by Samah Fouad, Awad Rizk, Esam Mosbah, Mostafa M. Nabeeh, Walaa Awadin, Ayman S. Elmezayyen, Ekramy Elmorsy, Adel Zaghloul

“…Methods A total of 90 male Sprague Dawley rats (255 ± 55gm) were randomized in-to six groups, each group with 15 rats: control group, laminectomy group, PRF group, Chi/Ag-NPs group, combined treatment group (PRF + Chi/Ag-NPs), and a group to prepare PRF. Lumbar laminectomy procedures were performed between L3-L5 in all rats except the control group. …”
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Short-term results of hip prosthesis with shortening osteotomy in patients with crowe type iv dysplastic coxarthrosis by Omer Polat, Selim Sanel, Mehmet Nurullah Ermis, Can Solakoglu

“…Preoperative, six-month, and one-year postoperative assessments included Harris Hip Scores, Oswestry Scale, VAS Hip and Lumbar, and SF-36 Quality of Life Indexes. Preoperative Harris hip scores (41.86±8.63) increased to 85.46±2.51 at six-months and 89.97±1.52 at one year. …”
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El papel del profesional en agronomía, en la restauración de la tierra como entorno complejo by Reinaldo Giraldo-Díaz, Libia Esperanza Nieto-Gómez

“…Se encontró que es necesaria una apuesta por un estudio amplio de la agricultura moderna, que la disciplina agronómica debe orientarse al servicio de una cultura de la alegría y el reconocimiento de los otros, y que la Universidad puede jugar un papel fundamental en la formación de agrónomos con pensamiento complejo. …”
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Radiographic Features of Spinal Meningioma and Schwannoma: A Novel Specific Feature―Ginkgo Leaf Sign by Yu Toda, Masashi Miyazaki, Takaomi Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Egashira, Deokcheol Lee, Hideaki Hamanaka, Shigeo Ueda, Hiromu Yoshizato, Masatsugu Tsukamoto, Tomohito Yoshihara, Hirohito Hirata, Hiroaki Konishi, Tatsuya Tanaka, Koji Otani, Masaaki Mawatari, Tadatsugu Morimoto

“…Meningiomas were mostly found in the thoracic region (84%), whereas schwannomas were commonly located in the lumbar region (54%). For each tumor type, specific radiological findings were identified. …”
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