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Novel approaches to obesity prevention among youth are needed. Accordingly, the Office of Women's Health, Department of Health and Human Services, sponsored a challenge to create an interactive video game for obesity prevention. Our team took a theory-based, evidence-informed approach to increasing physical activity in girls. Our approach-digitally mediated physical play-allowed us to include computing-based strategies that promote activity without keeping players in front of a screen. Our prize-winning prototype app, Frolic, helps girls choose the perfect game to play in any context, engaging parents for support. The app is used to highlight some opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary collaboration. However, much work remains to be done to deploy innovative digital obesity interventions and fully capture the contributions of these tools. In order to accelerate advances, funding is needed for projects that combine engineering design principles with traditional obesity research paradigms.
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Invenciones , Aplicaciones Móviles , Obesidad Infantil , Juego e Implementos de Juego , Adolescente , Niño , Preescolar , Atención a la Salud/métodos , Ejercicio Físico/psicología , Femenino , Humanos , Relaciones Padres-Hijo , Obesidad Infantil/prevención & control , Obesidad Infantil/terapia , Ludoterapia/instrumentación , Ludoterapia/métodos , Prevención Primaria/instrumentación , Prevención Primaria/métodos , Sistemas de Apoyo Psicosocial , Terapias en Investigación/instrumentación , Terapias en Investigación/métodos , Juegos de Video , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Recently rechargeable devices have been introduced for sacral neuromodulation (SNM) with conditional safety for full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Currently a recharge-free SNM device represents the standard implant; however, it is only approved for MRI head scans. As further new technologies with broader MRI capabilities are emerging, the advantages as well as disadvantages of both rechargeable versus recharge-free devices will be briefly discussed in this commentary from the perspective of patients, healthcare professionals, and providers.
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Incontinencia Fecal/terapia , Invenciones , Prótesis e Implantes/normas , Sacro/fisiopatología , Terapias en Investigación/normas , Estimulación Eléctrica Transcutánea del Nervio/normas , Vejiga Urinaria Hiperactiva/terapia , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Guías como Asunto , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Terapias en Investigación/instrumentación , Terapias en Investigación/métodos , Estimulación Eléctrica Transcutánea del Nervio/instrumentación , Estimulación Eléctrica Transcutánea del Nervio/métodosRESUMEN
The work was aimed at assessing efficacy and safety of indications for and contraindications to a promising method of treatment for multifocal atherosclerosis - enforced external counterpulsation, suggesting a new noninvasive method of treatment of chronic obliterating diseases of lower-limb arteries - cardiosynchronized sequential antegrade pneumocompression.
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Arteriosclerosis Obliterante/terapia , Terapias Complementarias , Aparatos de Compresión Neumática Intermitente/tendencias , Arteriosclerosis Obliterante/fisiopatología , Ensayos Clínicos como Asunto , Terapias Complementarias/instrumentación , Terapias Complementarias/métodos , Terapias Complementarias/tendencias , Humanos , Extremidad Inferior/irrigación sanguínea , Evaluación de Resultado en la Atención de Salud , Flujo Sanguíneo Regional , Terapias en Investigación/instrumentación , Terapias en Investigación/métodosRESUMEN
The work is dedicated to a new method of treatment for chronic obliterating diseases of lower limb arteries - cardiosynchronized sequential antegrade pneumocompression. The author describes the basic principles of the method, its physiological effects, and the results of treatment on volunteers.