Post-congress symposium on pain: A report back

Symposium on osteoporosis: fractures, back pain, disability - management.

Special Report On Low Back Pain

Low back pain, a human frailty that dates back to antiquity, has generated prodigious revenues and is about to teach a lesson about the changing medical market. I was invited to make a presentation at the ASNR Meeting entitled "Overview of Imaging of Low Back Pain." My initial plans were to extol the virtues of magnetic resonance (MR) and to review the optimal pulse sequences for scanning the l...

Post-traumatic Back Pain Revealed as Tuberculous Spondylitis -A Case Report-

Tuberculous spondylitis is a very rare disease, but it can result in bone destruction, kyphotic deformity, spinal instability, and neurologic complications unless early diagnosis and proper management are done. Because the most common symptom of tuberculous spondylitis is back pain, it can often be misdiagnosed. Atypical tuberculous spondylitis can be presented as a metastatic cancer or a prima...

Effects of acupressure on low back pain

Low Bock Pain is a very common condition; as about 80% of people experience it throughout their life. Low Back Pain has negative effects on different aspects of the clients’ lives. The objective of the research is conducted to evaluate the effect of acupressure on Low Back Pain and decline amount medication. Ninety patients were selected by convenience sampling and then randomly divided into th...

Symposium report on "Dynamic Methods For Improving Undergraduate Physiology Education": IUPS 38th World Congress.

Pâmela B. Mello-Carpes, Barbekka Hurtt, Fernanda K. Marcondes, Colleen J. Thomas, Kathleen Marie Bartlow, and Maria José Alves Rocha Physiology Research Group, Federal University of Pampa, Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado; Department of Physiological Sciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piraci...