Eighteen months into my therapy, I attended my first weekend "marathon"—an intensive group session held at the office: ten hours a day, two days in a row.
He invited me to come to India for a week for a drupchen, an intensive group practice, and suggested I consider staying in India for a few months after that.
In half of the centres the patients from the first cohort will be randomized to GST format A, which is an intensive group treatment or TAU.
One hundred and fifty patients who showed no signs of AS on ultrasound were randomly divided into an intensive group and a conventional group, with 75 cases in each group.
The intervention of this study consists of two groups (an intensive group and an advice group) to which participants are allocated based on their exercise self-efficacy score.
In a randomised controlled trial the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of an intensive group training protocol versus physiotherapy guideline care for sub-acute and chronic low back pain patients is evaluated.
No trials are yet available that have evaluated the effect of an intensive group training protocol including behavioural principles and back school in a primary physiotherapy care setting and no data on cost-effectiveness and cost-utility are available.
COPERS (coping with persistent pain, effectiveness research into self-management) is a pragmatic randomised controlled trial testing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an intensive, group, cognitive behavioural-based, theoretically informed and manualised self-management course for chronic pain patients against a control of best usual care: a pain education booklet and a relaxation CD.
In the ACCORD study, participants were randomly assigned to an intensive group, in which the hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) target was <6.0%, or to a standard group, in which the HbA1c target was between 7.1 and 7.9%.
At G.ho.st's offices in Ramallah, in a stone-faced building with black reflective glass perched on a hill in the city's business district, employees say they feel part of an intensive group effort to create something groundbreaking.
