It seems that we are again in the midst of a new storm of concern about an epidemic of benzodiazepine (BZ) overuse, misuse, and abuse. The first concern, in the 1980s, posited BZs as an epidemic of excessive prescribing and was frequently mentioned in books, movies, and numerous lay magazine articles. There was also concern that BZs were abused or misused, caused addiction with difficult withdr...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Internet addiction levels between male and female medical students. METHODS One hundred medical students (male: 50, female: 50) aged 17-30 years were included in a cross-sectional study. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess their Internet addiction level. Additionally, a self-designed questionnaire was used to identify the various purposes of Internet use a...

The last three decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in female sports participation at all levels. However, increased sports participation of female athletes has also increased the incidence of sport-related injuries, which can be either acute trauma or overuse injuries. Overuse injuries may be defined as an imbalance caused by overly intensive training and inadequate recovery, which sub...

Elbow injuries are common in sports that involve throwing, overhead activity, and upper extremity weight-bearing, including baseball, volleyball, football, javelin throwing, and gymnastics. Although acute injuries of the elbow are somewhat common in pediatric patients, overuse injuries in youth athletes are very prevalent. Elbow pain in baseball players aged 9 to 12 years has been found to rang...

Chronic pain in the Achilles tendon. Access to the published version may require subscription. PREFACE According to Greek mythology, the legendary warrior Achilles was invulnerable except for his heel. It is written in the Iliad that he died due to an arrow that pierced his Achilles tendon, thus the " Achilles' heel " came to symbolise a person's principal weakness. Nowadays, weakness of the Ac...

conclusions the prevalence of ia among medical students in southeast iran was high and affected by happiness. increasing happiness with the provision of various programs may prevent ia problems among students and may improve their educational situation. background several factors are responsible for overuse of the internet among young adults. the practice can lead to internet addiction (ia). in...

Background Hippocampus (HIP) was an important limbic structure, and concurrent emotion disorders may occur in medication-overuse headache patients. The aim of this study is to investigate altered HIP and HIP subfields volume in relation with the anxiety in medication-overuse headache patients using a state-of-the-art hippocampal segment method. Results The current study presented that a signifi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in patients diagnosed with chronic migraine with and without acute medication overuse. METHODS Seventy-two volunteers were recruited from a Family Health Program of the Paraisópolis community in São Paulo (SP), Brazil. These patients were submitted to a detailed headache questionnaire. All participants were submitted to physical an...

Although the chances of predicting a preventable fracture by bone densitometry may be small, it is also important that two thirds of patients can be reassured that fracture is less likely and therefore long term treatment is not needed. That there is overuse, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment for osteoporosis is due not to bone densitometry or to epidemiological reports but to various factors, i...