Destructive spondyloarthropathy (DSA) has been reported in patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis. Cervical spinal lesions, including those of the upper cervical spine, are reported to be some of the most common. To our knowledge, we report for the first time, a case of atlanto-occipital subluxation requiring surgical treatment due to severe myelopathy and nuchal pain in a patient undergoin...

We have examined whether the rotatory subluxation of the scaphoid which is seen in patients with advanced Kienböck's disease is associated with scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC) wrist. We studied 16 patients (11 men, 5 women) who had stage-IV Kienböck's disease with chronic subluxation of the scaphoid. All had received conservative treatment. The mean period of affection with Kienböck's dis...

The purpose of this study was to determine the value of reconstruction of the medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) in the treatment of recurrent patellar dislocation and subluxation. We retrospectively reviewed 40 randomised patients with recurrent patellar dislocation or subluxation, who had undergone realignment surgery from July 1999 to December 2001. Group E consisted of 20 patients who ha...

One hundred and forty shoulders in 115 patients that had a diagnosis of traumatic or atraumatic recurrent anterior, posterior, or multidirectional subluxation were treated with a specific set of muscle-strengthening exercises. Only twelve (16 per cent) of the seventy-four shoulders (sixty-eight patients) that had traumatic subluxation had a good or excellent result from the exercises, compared ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of cervical spine abnormalities among patients with rheumatoid arthritis and correlate the imaging findings with the clinical state. METHODS A cross-sectional study on 35 patients was carried out at the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in 2004. The following were evaluated: age, use of medications and the clinical picture of pain...

INTRODUCTION Medial patellar subluxation is usually seen after lateral retinacular release. Spontaneous medial subluxation of the patella is a very rare condition. There are few reports in the literature on the pathophysiology of iatrogenic medial patellar subluxation. To our knowledge, there are no reports of the pathophysiology of non-iatrogenic medial patellar subluxation in the English lite...

Objective: To describe the results of subluxation-based chiropractic care of a female struggling to conceive, and to provide a current review of the literature on infertility and chiropractic. Clinical Features: A 29-year-old female schoolteacher with an 8-year history of infertility presented to a chiropractic clinic for care. She revealed during the history that her menstrual cycle typically ...

BACKGROUND The Hueter-Volkmann law describes growth principles around joints and joint deformation. It states that decreased stress leads to increased growth and that excessive stress leads to growth retardation. Aim of this study was to test the possible results of this principle by measuring the effect of dorsal humeral head subluxation on scapular growth in children with Obstetrical Brachial...

^ f Of the five books I have been able to refer to Erichsen and Rose and Carless do not appear to mention the injury, Spencer and Gask merely mention it, while Treves' is the only work that gives any details, Neal's Medical Digest refers to five cases, of which through the courtesy of the Librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons, I have been able to obtain summaries. 1. My first case was a Go...

OBJECTIVE Physical and sonographic evaluation of hemiplegic shoulder in patients after acute stroke and correlation between the physical/sonographic findings and early-onset hemiplegic shoulder pain. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Fifty-seven patients after stroke with hemiplegic shoulder. METHODS Subjects were assigned to poor motor function and good motor function groups accordi...