OBJECTIVE To determine the correlations among various dyspnea scales, spirometric data, exercise tolerance data, and the Body mass index, airway Obstruction, Dyspnea, and Exercise capacity (BODE) index in patients with COPD. METHODS Between March of 2008 and July of 2009, 79 patients with COPD were recruited, and 50 of those patients were included in the study. After being regularly treated w...

OBJECTIVE To determine the difference in short- and long-term pain improvement between lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections (ESIs) and conservative management in patients with lumbar radiculopathy. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Postgraduate Medical Institute of Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, from April 2005 to March 2007. METHODOLOGY Fifty elec...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal disorders are frequently met in dentistry. OBJECTIVES To show the efficiency of rehabilitation and to make correlations among patients' pain levels, their overall health status, and the number of days of work absenteeism. MATERIALS AND METHOD A total of 390 dentists diagnosed with low back pain, scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervicobrachial neuralg...

BACKGROUND Bronchodilator response in patients with asthma is evaluated based on post-bronchodilator increase in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC). However, the need for additional parameters, mainly among patients with severe asthma, has already been demonstrated. METHODS The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of vital capacity (VC) a...

We suggest that different mechanisms underlie joint pain at rest and on movement in osteoarthritis and that separate assessment of these two features with a visual analogue scale (VAS) offers better information about the likely effect of a total knee replacement (TKR) on pain. The risk of persistent pain after TKR may relate to the degree of central sensitisation before surgery, which might be ...

The aim of the study is to present our results regarding the efficacy of TRT for tinnitus relief in patients with clinically significant tinnitus compared to a group treated with vasoactive agents. In a nonrandomized prospective study, 63 patients with disabling tinnitus were recruited. Greek translation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and visual analogue scale (VAS) for annoyance caus...

We have compared patients' and nurses' assessments of postoperative pain and anxiety after different analgesic treatments. Sixty orthopaedic patients were allocated randomly to receive i.v. piritramide (either nurse-controlled or patient-controlled) or subarachnoid bupivacaine (nurse-controlled or patient-controlled). Patients and nurses assessed pain and anxiety using a visual analogue scale (...

The aim of this study was to compare the preoperative patients' expectations with their postoperative satisfaction after arthroplasties of the hip and knee, using a visual analogue scale. The comparison was made in a group of 44 patients after 44 primary knee and hip joint arthroplasties. A visual analogue scale (VAS) was used for the assessment of expectation and satisfaction. The mean preoper...

background & aim: the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the pain of patients with spondylolisthesis who had undergone either of the surgery techniques: posterolateral fusion (plf) or posterior lumbar interbody fusion (plif). methods & materials/patients: in a prospective observational study, 102 surgical candidates with low grade degenerative and isthmic spondylolisthesis were e...

OBJECTIVES The goal of the present study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the tinnitus handicap questionnaire (THQ-K). METHODS A total of 60 patients were included in this study. Patients responded to the THQ-K, the tinnitus handicap inventory (THI), Beck's depression index (BDI), and the visual analogue scale (VAS) for loudness and pitch, loudness match, ...