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Nov 30, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | UCB Biosciences |Ithaca College

Burkholderia cenocepacia is a Gram-negative bacterium that is known to be a human pathogen. Due to its inherent antibiotic resistance, ability to form biofilms and virulence factors, this organism is often responsible for life-threatening infections in immunocompromised patients (O'Grady & Sokol, 2011; Scoffone et al., 2016).

Jul 4, 2024 | link.springer.com | Ithaca College |Francis Xavier |Susan Levine

AbstractPost-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), represents a constellation of abnormal responses to physical, cognitive, and/or emotional exertion including profound fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and exertion intolerance, among numerous other maladies.

Mar 5, 2024 | trialbulletin.com | Ithaca College

OverviewBackground / Purpose: There is an ongoing debate regarding the ability of physical therapists to manually sense intervertebral motion. Physical therapists use intervertebral hypomobility as a clinical indicator for spinal manipulation. Also in question is the mechanism of improvement observed after spinal manipulation. Some argue that the improvement is purely neurophysiologic and unrelated to changes in intervertebral motion.

Jul 6, 2023 | academic.oup.com | Coral Gables |Ithaca College

Leaders and scholars of multiple academies of the American Physical Therapy Association are developing and defining movement system diagnoses to guide practice. However, there is no consensus on the need for or content of such frameworks.