[Purpose] Many patients receive intermittent cervical traction in a daily treatment setting. However, unified settings for traction force, duration, and direction have yet to be determined. Therefore, an objective index is required to determine changes in traction conditions or to indicate its effectiveness. [Subjects] Fifteen healthy males volunteers participated in this study. [Methods] The t...

This study examined the effect of experimental neck muscle pain on the EMG-force relationship of cervical agonist and antagonist muscles. Surface EMG signals were detected from the sternomastoid, splenius capitis, and upper trapezius muscles bilaterally from 14 healthy subjects during cervical flexion and extension contractions of linearly increasing force from 0 to 60% of the maximum voluntary...

introduction: thyroid gland is well known to resist infections by rich blood supply and lymphatic drainage,   high glandular content of iodine which can be bactericidal and separation of the gland from other structures of neck. primary thyroid abscess resulting from acute suppurative thyroiditis (ast) is an unusual type of head and neck infection and it is a rare condotion in children so that p...

purpose: to report a case of endogenous klebsiella endophthalmitis associated with liver abscess in iran. case report: a 79 year old man was referred with chief complaint of left eye pain and visual loss. the patient had conjunctival hyperemia, corneal edema, hypopyon and severe vitreous cellular reaction in the left eye and yellowish conjunctival discoloration which was apparent in the right e...

to retrospectively evaluate the treated cases with odontogenic abscess and identify the outcome of odontogenic infections, their characteristics and treatment modalities.this retrospective study was performed by collecting data from 310 patient records at the oral and maxillofacial surgery department of taleghani hospital, tehran, iran from january 2001 to january 2011. the variables were age, ...

An 82yearold female who had received injections of hyaluronic acid into her knee joints several times because of osteoarthritis was admitted to a local hospital because of fever. Methicillinsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus was detected from cultures of blood and kneejoint fluid. Cefazolin administration was initiated. However, her condition did not improve for 3 weeks, so she was transferred t...

BACKGROUND Adequate muscle relaxation is important for ensuring optimal conditions for intubation. Although acceleromyography of the adductor pollicis muscle is commonly used to assess conditions for intubation, we hypothesized that acceleromyography of the trapezius is more indicative of optimal intubating conditions. The primary outcome was the difference between both measurement sites with r...