STUDY DESIGN Randomized clinical trial. OBJECTIVES To examine the effectiveness of cervical traction in addition to exercise for specific subgroups of patients with neck pain. BACKGROUND Cervical traction is frequently used, but its effectiveness has not been adequately examined. Existing studies have failed to target patients most likely to respond. Traction is typically recommended for pa...

Posterior hip dislocations occur as a result of trauma in positions flexion, adduction, and internal rotation. In developing countries especially Indonesia, the patients usually come to hospital several days or even years after trauma. Open reduction was known management posterior dislocation chronic condition. We present case 22-year-old male with neglected from motor vehicle collision 1 year ...

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. In June, 2011, a 27-year-old man was walking home in the dark, in Lilongwe, Malawi, when he fell several meters into an open septic tank that was under construction. H...

cannot be maintained unless adequate traction is continued during after-treatment. In compound' fractures with a more-or-less trivial external wound and a moderate amount of damage to the underlying soft structures, open reduction after a thorough surgical toilet of the wound and immediate plastering gives very good results; but when the patients come under observation after the infection has s...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to analyze cervical muscle activity at different traction forces of an air-inflatable neck traction device. [Subjects] Eighteen males participated in this study. [Methods] The subjects put on an air-inflatable neck traction device and the traction forces administered were 40, 80, and 120 mmHg. The electromyography (EMG) signals of the splenius capitis, an...

METHODS 17 physicians, experienced in transvenous lead removal, performed a lead extraction manoeuvre of an ICD lead on a torso phantom. They were advised to stop traction only when further traction would be considered as harmful to the patient or when--based on their experience--a change in the extraction strategy was indicated. Traction forces were recorded with a digital precision gauge. R...

This study describes the development of a cervical traction therapy simulation model that evaluates two types of the traction positions, namely the sitting position and the inclined position. An anatomically correct human skeleton model and two mechanical traction device models were constructed in simulations using a physics engine. The anterior and posterior intervertebral separations were mea...

This study was undertaken to compare the myoelectric activity of the upper trapezius muscle before, during, and after intermittent, supine cervical traction. Twelve people with diagnosed disease or injury of the cervical spine served as subjects. Electromyographic recordings were taken from the upper trapezius muscle with bipolar surface electrodes. The subjects were treated with 20 minutes of ...

BACKGROUND Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy is the most serious complication after thyroidectomy. However, little is known about the degree of traction injury that causes loss of signal. The purpose of this study was to evaluate traction injuries in the swine RLN using continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) and determine the traction power that results in loss of signal. METHOD...