- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Nausea and vomiting management
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
University of California, Los Angeles
2023
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
2016
Abstract Thoracotomy pain is common after chest surgery and may result from injury to the lung pleura, intercostal muscles, costovertebral joint, or nerves. Inappropriately controlled postoperative can hinder recovery increase risk of complications such as infection, atelectasis, blood clots, development post‐thoracotomy syndrome. A number treatment options for acute are available, most which require systemic medications indwelling catheters that be contraindicated in patients on...
Why do functional assessments in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) matter? Multiple studies show that new dialysis undergo a substantial decline among activities of daily living. Moreover, poor status ESRD is associated early morality. That why CMS has developed criteria to assess regards their functional, psychologic, and cognitive capabilities. Functional by health providers have been used field Rehabilitation Medicine for over 50 years; rehabilitation physicians found them...
Background Chronic pain has long been a major health burden that addressed through numerous forms of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment. One the tenets modern medicine is to minimize risk while providing efficacy. Further, because its noninvasive nature, virtual reality (VR) provides an attractive platform for potentially developing novel therapeutic modalities. Objective The purpose this study was determine feasibility VR-based digital therapy treatment chronic pain. Methods...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Chronic pain has long been a major health burden that addressed through numerous forms of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment. One the tenets modern medicine is to minimize risk while providing efficacy. Further, because its noninvasive nature, virtual reality (VR) provides an attractive platform for potentially developing novel therapeutic modalities. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> The purpose this study was determine feasibility VR-based...