Integrative Clinical Research

This book embraces a comprehensive range of research across several disciplines, providing insights and fresh perspectives on clinical topics, emphasizing the integrative medical approach.

The book also addresses an increasing role of artificial intelligence in the development of clinical methodologies, research, and patient-oriented care. The authors share expertise and experience in rehabilitation medicine whose healing-effects particularly depend on the interaction between the therapist and patient. Chapters present novel approaches in manual rehabilitative therapy of common painful and disabling neuromuscular ailments, exemplified but not limited to low back pain and migraine. The myofascial trigger point release therapy includes specific manipulations to muscles and connective tissue which reduce pain. Other chapters address the issues of providing long-range medical care to older adults burdened with chronic diseases, notably hypoxia-related pathologies and their sequalae, pointing to the advantages of care provided by a single primary care physician. Changing paradigm of care is essential in chronic atherosclerosis-based diseases like cardiovascular disorders or diabetes. Chapters provide results of international cohort studies on predictive factors for the long-range progress of such ailments based on anthropometric and lifestyle indicators. The book aims to meet the increasing interest and importance to patients of integrative health therapies. Medical rehabilitation and lifestyle changes increasingly gain scientific support in difficult-to-treat chronic conditions and should be integrated in a controlled manner into conventional medicine.

The book is addressed to physiotherapists, medical scientists and clinicians, and allied healthcare professionals.

Inhalt

Artificial Intelligence and Precision Medicine: A Perspective.- Pedobarography in Physiotherapy: A Narrative Review on Current Knowledge.- Quantum Medicine: A Role of Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields in the Management of Chronic Pain.- Manual Therapy Approach to the Extraocular Muscles in Migraine Treatment: A preliminary Study.- Capacitive and Resistive Electric Transfer Therapy: A Comparison of Operating Methods in Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain.- Serum Impedance in Children with Recurrent Respiratory Infections.- Olfactory Response to Altitude Hypoxia: A Pilot Study During a Himalayan Trek.- Changes in Hospital Admissions When Care Is Provided by a Single Primary Care Physician: A Cohort Study on Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Patients in Israel.- Risk of Falls in Persons over Sixty-five Years of Age in the Context of Treatment Setting.- Impaired Fasting Glucose and Progression to Type 2 Diabetes: Prediction Based on Anthropometric Measurements. Findings after 9 Years of Follow-Up in the PURE Study in Poland.- Cardiovascular Risk Factors Drive Impaired Fasting Glucose to Type 2 Diabetes: Findings after a Nine-Year Follow-Up in the PURE Study in Poland.- Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Pregnancy.