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Jorge Hugo Villafañe
Researcher at American Physical Therapy Association
Publications - 222
Citations - 3219
Jorge Hugo Villafañe is an academic researcher from American Physical Therapy Association. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Osteoarthritis. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 186 publications receiving 2179 citations. Previous affiliations of Jorge Hugo Villafañe include King Juan Carlos University & University of Bologna.
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Effect of Therapeutic Exercise on Pain and Disability in the Management of Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials
Lucia Bertozzi,Ivan Gardenghi,Francesca Turoni,Jorge Hugo Villafañe,Francesco Capra,Andrew A. Guccione,Paolo Pillastrini +6 more
TL;DR: A significant overall effect size was found supporting TE for its effect on pain in both the short and intermediate terms, and support the use of TE in the management of CNSNP.
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Fusion rate following extreme lateral lumbar interbody fusion.
Pedro Berjano,Francesco Langella,Marco Damilano,Matteo Pejrona,Josip Buric,Maryem Ismael,Jorge Hugo Villafañe,Claudio Lamartina +7 more
TL;DR: The results of this series confirm that anterior inter body fusion by means of XLIF approach is a technique that achieves high fusion rate and satisfactory clinical outcomes.
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Investigation of the effect of conservative interventions in thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis
Lucia Bertozzi,Kristin Valdes,Carla Vanti,Stefano Negrini,Paolo Pillastrini,Jorge Hugo Villafañe +5 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials regarding the effect of conservative interventions on pain and function in people with thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) osteoarthritis found moderate quality evidence that manual therapy and therapeutic exercise combined with manual therapy improve pain in thumb CMC OA at short- and intermediate-term follow-up.
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The Effectiveness of a Manual Therapy and Exercise Protocol in Patients With Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that a combination of joint mobilization, neural mobilization, and exercise is more beneficial in treating pain than a sham intervention in patients with CMC joint OA, and the treatment approach has limited value in improving pressure pain thresholds, as well as pinch and grip strength.
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Complications in adult spine deformity surgery: a systematic review of the recent literature with reporting of aggregated incidences
Andrea Zanirato,Marco Damilano,Matteo Formica,Andrea Piazzolla,Alessio Lovi,Jorge Hugo Villafañe,Pedro Berjano +6 more
TL;DR: Reported complications of surgery for ASD in the recent literature are frequent (24–36% perioperative plus 11–15% late) and open procedures were the most extensively reported in the literature.