BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a global zoonotic disease. Although important for the assessment of the burden of leptospirosis, data on the duration of the illness and the occurrence of post-leptospirosis complaints are not well documented. Hence the main objective of this study was to estimate the occurrence of persistent complaints and duration of hospital stay in laboratory confirmed leptospiro...

OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to investigate the impact of complaints on doctors' psychological welfare and health. The secondary aim was to assess whether doctors report exposure to a complaints process is associated with defensive medical practise. DESIGN This was a cross-sectional anonymous survey study. Participants were stratified into recent/current, past, no complaints. Each group com...

the telecom services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socioeconomic development for a nation and hence telecom infrastructure is treated as a crucial factor to realize the socio-economic objectives in india. accordingly, the department of telecom has been formulating developmental policies for the accelerated growth of the telecommunication services.  bsnl is a wholl...

BACKGROUND According to international study results, physical therapists are afflicted with work-related musculoskeletal, psychosocial and dermal disorders as well as infections. The few existing studies in German-speaking regions focus mainly on dermal and psychosocial exposures and resulting complaints. An overview of all relevant work-related exposures and complaints of physical therapists i...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to present a possible discrete effect of heat therapy on the urinary system during physical therapy of a patient with lumbar discopathy. DESIGN This is a case report. Setting. This study was carried out in a a tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS A 33-year-old man with the diagnosis of lumbar discopathy undertook physical th...

BACKGROUND We examined the vocal complaints and evaluated the correlation between the vocal handicap index (VHI) and heart rate variability (HRV) in physical education teachers. We evaluated 46 teachers. METHOD The subjects were investigated regarding voice complaint and the VHI was applied. HRV was recorded at seated rest for ten minutes and it was analyzed in the time, frequency domains, ge...