Adam Saby

ORCID: 0000-0003-3213-2043
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  • 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...

10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.06.003 article EN PM&R 2016-06-09

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...

10.1111/sdi.12466 article EN Seminars in Dialysis 2016-01-12

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...

10.2196/34162 article EN cc-by JMIR Formative Research 2023-09-21

<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...

10.2196/preprints.34162 preprint EN 2021-10-22
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