著者

Yoshiyuki Yoshikawa Terutaka Hiramatsu Masaharu Sugimoto Mikiko Uemura Yuki Mori Ryoko Ichibori

出版者

The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine

雑誌

Progress in Rehabilitation Medicine (ISSN:24321354)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.20220045, 2022 (Released:2022-09-07)

参考文献数

37

被引用文献数

2

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Objectives: This double-blind crossover-controlled trial aimed to verify the effect of electrical stimulation therapy on pressure injuries with undermining.Methods : In this trial, we compared the healing rates between a sham period and a treatment period using monophasic pulsed microcurrent therapy. The participants were randomly assigned to the sham or treatment group and received stimulation for 2 weeks. All the participants, physical therapists, and researchers were blinded to the allocation. For the main analysis, data on the effect of the intervention on changes in weekly healing and contraction rates of the wound areas, including undermining, were analyzed based on a two-period crossover study design. The intervention effect was estimated by examining the mean treatment difference for each period using Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test.Results : The reduction of the entire wound area, including the undermining area, resulted in significantly higher healing and contraction rates in the treatment group (overall wound area reduction rate: contraction rate, P=0.008; period healing rate, P=0.002).Conclusions : Electrical stimulation therapy for pressure injuries, using conditions based on the findings of an in vivo culture study, was effective in reducing the wound area.

著者

Yuki MORI Tomokazu HOKADA Tomoharu MIYAMOTO Takeshi IKEDA

出版者

Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences

雑誌

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (ISSN:13456296)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.221124, (Released:2023-05-15)

被引用文献数

2

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We determined the metamorphic age and pressure–temperature conditions recorded in a sillimanite-garnet-bearing pelitic gneiss from Niban-nishi Rock, which is part of Niban Rock, on the Prince Olav Coast, eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Niban-nishi Rock is recognized as a component of the Lützow-Holm Complex (LHC), which is characterized by metamorphic age of 600–520 Ma and metamorphic grade of amphibolite to granulite facies. Electron microprobe U–Th–Pb monazite dating of the examined gneiss revealed that, unlike the typical exposures of the LHC, Niban-nishi Rock experienced Tonian metamorphism at 940.1 ± 9.8 Ma (2σ level), and is thus more similar to the neighboring exposures of Cape Hinode and Akebono Rock. Small numbers of younger monazite ages of 827–531 Ma were also detected, and some of which might relate to the metamorphism of the LHC. Phase equilibrium modeling and geothermobarometry indicate metamorphic conditions of 690–730 °C/0.38–0.68 GPa and 620–670 °C/0.42–0.60 GPa for peak and retrograde stages, respectively. The obtained peak temperature is lower than that of typical exposures in transitional- and granulite-facies zones of the LHC, such as Akarui Point and Skallen. Metamorphic features of Niban-nishi Rock, such as the upper amphibolite-facies condition and occurrences of garnet with retrograde zoning and sillimanite in the matrix, differ from those of Cape Hinode and Akebono Rock, with the former belonging to granulite facies and the latter showing kyanite in the matrix and garnet with growth zoning. Investigating Niban-nishi Rock is key in revealing the tectonic relation between the LHC and Cape Hinode (the Hinode Block). Further field surveys are required to reveal the metamorphic variations and the relations among exposures on the Prince Olav Coast.