Background: Hypertrophic scars can be caused by various injuries and lead to a decrease in quality of life those affected. This study was performed retrospectively our center investigate the safety effectiveness fractional micro-plasma radio-frequency treatment combined with ablative carbon dioxide (CO2) laser patients hypertrophic scar.

Knowledge is lacking among Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeons (ORL-HNS) regarding basic ethical situations in corporate-provider relationships. A pilot educational program demonstrates the need and potential for improvement by structured intervention. "At risk" areas specifically identified regard acceptable gifts, and payments for meetings and travel. Recommendations are made to educate o...

Tinnitus, the perception of sound without an external source, can be caused by a variety of conditions. Prevalence in the United States is approximately 10% to 15%. It can be categorized as primary (idiopathic and accompanied by or not by sensorineural hearing loss) and secondary (caused by a specific condition or problem other than sensorineural hearing loss). This guideline from the American ...

There is increasing pressure on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to follow the evidence-based approach promoted in allied health and medicine, in which the randomised control trial represents the evidence gold standard. However, many CAM advocates see these methods as undermining the holism of CAM practice. This paper explores how such tensions are managed in CAM university departme...

Some common methodologies in our everyday life are not based on modern scientific know/edge bill rather a set ofexperiences that have established themselves through years ofpractice. As a good ex· ample, there are many forms ofalternative medicine. quite popular, however difficullto comprehend by conventional western medicine. The diagnostic and therapeutic methodologies are very different alld...

Patients with long-term type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) can develop skeletal complications or "diabetic osteopathy". These include osteopenia, osteoporosis and an increased incidence of low-stress fractures. In this context, it is important to evaluate whether current anti-diabetic treatments can secondarily affect bone metabolism. Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK...

Jim Jealous, DO: Healing and the Natural World Interview by BOllnie Horrigan ~ Alternative Therapies, January 1997. Vol. 3, No.1 There is a reason tliat people drive from neighboring states to see Jim Jealolls, DO, at his clinic in Vennollt. It is the same reason that students line lip to take his classes and that tire Universitl) of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine founded a sclwlar...

1Ben-Essere Sport and Wellness Association Rapallo, Third-Sector Liguria Region Registry, Genoa, Italy 2Medical Devices R&D Consultant, Genoa, Italy 3ASL4 Chiavarese (Liguria Regional Health Service) Via G. B. Ghio, 9-16043 Chiavari, Genoa, Italy, Sport Medicine, N.S. di Montallegro Hospital, Rapallo, Genoa, Italy 4Posturology, Medicine and Dental Surgery, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, It...

‘‘Sixteen years as a general practitioner [GP] showed me that the prevailing biomedical reductionist model fails to address the complexity of human experience and psychosomatic illness that daily practice brings up, and for which I was not trained. Even at the purely physical level, there are huge gaps in conventional training with virtually no training in musculoskeletal medicine (a huge compo...