MISC> The Standing Need to Find Balance in Search Results
- From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:41:06 -0600
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 04:36:48 -0500 (EST)
I received in my email a reference question from a member of a
biomechanics discussion group seeking "sense of ground" "balance" and
"proprioception" information sources regarding diabetics from other list
members. I am not sharing my response to this request out of a deep
realization that you are all going to rush out and clog libraries in your
area looking up information on this topic that you have been eagerly
awaiting for some time now. Rather, I am sharing this message to
illustrate a problem in searching that inhibits and defeats students and
scholars alike in searching for topic specific information. In this case
it is a simple matter of balance, but in other cases many other heavy duty
words will perform the same service of making life in databases and search
engines difficult at best.
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Here are a few citations that may help you with this subject of research
of diabetes and proprioreception followed by some carefully balanced
observations about the balance aspect of your topic of research:
Kernich, Catherine A. MSN, RN, CNS. Peripheral Neuropathy.
Neurologist. 7(5):315-316, September 2001.
Hirsch, Irl B. MD. Protecting and Treating the Neuropathic Foot.
Clinical Diabetes. 14(1):14-16, January/February 1996.
Boucher, B J BSc MD FRCP 1. Tsoumanis, J MD 1. Noonan, K BSc 2. Holmes, J
3. Dependence of retinopathy (and other complications) on glycaemic
control and on weight over 5/10 years from diagnosis of type II diabetes.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 89(1):27-30, January
1996.
The Effect of Balance and Physiotherapy Training on Postural Control and
General Physical Functioning in Diabetic Neuropathic Patients.
Diabetes. 51 SUPPLEMENT 2:A524, June 2002.
STANSBERRY, KEVIN B.. RESNICK, HELAINE E.. TIRIVEEDI, MADHAVI. TESORIERE,
PAUL J.. MORGAN, PAULA J.. VINIK, AARON I.. Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Impairs Balance Beyond the Effects of Aging and Diabetes Alone.
Diabetes. 49 SUPPLEMENT 1:A167, May 2000.
Balasubramanian V. Postural balance and acceleration threshold detection
for anterior horizontal translation in diabetic and non-diabetic elderly.
[Doctoral Dissertation. Research] Louisiana Tech University ** Ph.D. (142
p) 2001
Saltzman CL. Shurr D. Musculoskeletal Q & A. Balance problem in older
diabetic patients.
Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine. 17(8):447, 2000 Aug.
Perioperative management of diabetes mellitus: striving for metabolic
balance. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 59(5):447-9, 1992 Sep-Oct.
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The use of balance in searching for diabetics and say standing is little
short of a nightmare. Consider these phrases:
Energy balance
Metabolic balance
Balance in relationships (emotional stress)
Chemical balance
Water balance
Fluid balance
Thromboxane/prostacyclin balance
the balance for drug therapy
Balance of coagulation activity
Binocular vision and eye muscle balance
Balance of treatment
Fear of hypoglycemia on the balance of insulin-dependent diabetes
Sodium balance
"the balance between tissue plasminogen activator and plasminogen
activator inhibitor-1 in type 2 diabetic patients"
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Acid-base balance disorder
Nitrogen balance
Pump-leak balance in diabetic maculopathy
Tissue oxygen balance
and there is more.
Maintaining a proper and upstanding sense of balance in such a mine field
of unbalanced use of terminology requires careful balancing of the use of
phraseology in the titles that resulted in the balance of the titles found
in searching for discussions about balance and diabetes.
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This is the end of the message that I sent in response to that question.
In this case several attempts to locate a body of articles that used
balance in the sense wanted was futile. Consequently, a seperate search
was run for sense of standing and for proprioception both in the context
of diabetes. Then, the much longer list of documents that combined
diabetes with balance was scanned for context relevant resources. Words
with multiple meanings and words used within a context in a variety of
ways can make finding the information about that term in the specific
context desired quite a difficult and time consuming task. Computers do
not always do all of the work for us, and this is a good example of one of
those times.
Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECP RingLeader
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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