STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. PURPOSE This study aims to define the role of lumbar fusion for persistent back pains after the lumbar disc replacement. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Little is written about lumbar fusion after optimally placed lumbar arthroplasty in patients with persistent lower back pains. METHODS Retrospective review of cases of lumbar artificial disc requiring subsequent ...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether the prevalence of growing pains varies with indicators of fatty acid exposure. Growing pains (limb pains of no obvious explanation) have been shown to be strongly linked to a family history of arthritis, and are thought to predict an increased risk of the development of arthritis in adulthood. Much has been made of the possibility of fatty acids, particularly the ω-...

Background: With The fast growing world, in Bangladesh also getting increased usage of digital connectivity has led to a rise online activities and the musculoskeletal (MSK) pain among professionals.Objective: We investigating relationship between MSK discomfort resident doctors because computer ergonomics related issues.Materials Methods: study collected information from 227 who had used for a...

Physiotherapists are desired to have a good level of physical fitness to meet their job demands. As educators of Physical Therapy profession, it is important to expose students to their professional physical fitness demands that they would face in employment setting. The students of Bachelor of Physiotherapy programme from various colleges of Punjab and Haryana participated in the study. The da...

introduction: assessing quality of life for patients with shoulder instability may be essential because of the negative impacts of the disease on patient’s life. the aim of the present study, therefore,  was  to  assess  the  internal  validity  and  consistency,  test-retest  reliability,  and convergent validity of the persian version of the oxford shoulder instability score (osis). material ...

BACKGROUND Leg pain in children, described as growing pains, is a frequent clinical presentation seen by an array of health care professionals. Described since 1823, growing pains continues to puzzle practitioners, yet diagnostic criteria and evidence based treatment is available. METHODS The medical literature has been searched exhaustively to access all articles (English language) pertainin...

Much of our focus of attention has been on sub-clinical or subtle joint pain experienced by healthy soccer players. The present study aimed to determine at which joint such subclinical pains are the most prominent, and to examine the pain-relieving effect of a chicken comb extract (CCE)-containing supplement product (test product) on these athletes. A total of 46 collegiate soccer players, cons...

Background and Objectives: Prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of Islam. In spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the Lord God. This review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...

BY elective sensory paralysis is to be understood one in which certain only of the functions of the sensory nerves are abolished. The observations which are to be briefly reported here have been made upon my own left arm, and in large part by myself. The an-amnesis is as follows : I am at present twenty-eight years old, and, as far as I remember, aside from the ordinary diseases from which chil...

This article describes some negative effects from modernization and urban growth in South America, including disease, pesticides, occupational hazards, poor environmental controls of water and garbage, sanitation, and environmental degradation. South America is following the global trend toward urbanization and the problems that accompany it. Agricultural expansion led to an expanded market f...