Background & Aim: Low back pain is broadly documented as one of the most widespread pathologies in the advanced domain. Although the reasons of low back pain are uncountable, it has been meaningfully related to intervertebral disc degeneration. Present therapies for Intervertebral Disc (IVD) degeneration such as physical therapy and spinal fusion reduce symptoms' severity, but do not treat the ...

purpose: to determine the effect of induced myopia and hyperopia using soft contact lenses on optic disc parameters measured by fourier domain optical coherence tomography (fd-oct) in emmetropic persons. methods: in a quasi-experimental self controlled study, 57 normal emmetropic participants 18-42 years of age were studied. each subject underwent a complete ophthalmic examinations including me...

results the depression and disability scores of patients before lumbar discectomy significantly decreased after surgery. conclusions our results indicate that lumbar discectomy surgery significantly improved depression and disability in patients with chronic herniated discs. patients and methods one hundred forty-eight patients with chronic low back pain and radicular leg pain were included in ...

pomegranate tree possesses a vast ethnomedical history and represents a phytochemical reservoir of heuristic medicinal value. in the present study, total phenolics, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities of pomegranate peel were determined by folin–ciocalteu, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (dpph) and disk-diffusion methods, respectively, and compared among the accessions. methanolic extract g...

Little information is at hand on the diagnostic values of the clinical symptoms and signs in the level diagnosis of patients with lower lumbar disc herniation.  We examined one hundred and thirty nine consecutive candidates for lower lumbar discectomy.  Monoradicular pain with signs attributed to the fifth lumbar and first sacral root dysfunctions were evaluated independently in each patient.  ...

INTRODUCTION Disc herniation is a complex spinal disorder associated with disability and high healthcare cost. Lumbar disc herniation is strongly associated with disc degeneration. Candidate genes of the aggrecan metabolic pathway may associate with the severity of lumbar disc herniation. OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the association of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) of the candidate gen...

OBJECTIVES To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes-that is, normal population. METHODS The lumbar spines of 31 Olympic athletes who presented to the Olympic Polyclinic with low back pain and/or sciatica were examined using magnetic resonance imaging. Three criteria were looked ...

BACKGROUND Progressive disc tilting and the development or enlargement of peripapillary atrophy (PPA) are observed during a myopic shift in children. This could be related to the changes around the optic nerve head during eyeball elongation. If the biomechanical properties at or around the optic nerve head are changed after exposure to elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma eyes, diffe...