Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a public health problem worldwide. Secondary damage of brain injury begins within a few minutes after the trauma and can last a long time. It can be reversible, unlike primary injury. Therefore, therapeutic intervention can be used. The aims of this study were to assess the effects of minocycline on neurological function and serum S100B protein and neuron-specifi...

background: acute kidney injury (aki) has been recognized as one of the most complex clinical complications in modern medicine, and ischemia/reperfusion (i/r) injury is well-known as a main reason of aki. in addition, aki leads to important systemic consequences such as acute lung injury. this study was designed to investigate the role of erythropoietin (epo) on kidney function makers and tissu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of low back pain among caregivers of patients with spinal cord injury and to investigate the risk factors for LBP among this population. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A total of 100 spinal cord injured patients and their caregivers, and 87 healthy control subjects. METHODS Caregivers and control subjects completed a questionnaire about demog...

Persisting dizziness and balance problems after mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (mmTBI) may result in considerable disability. The primary aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with dizziness-related disability one year post-injury. Data from 64 participants (mean age 39.4 [SD 13.0] years; 45 [70.3%] women) mmTBI a previous randomised controlled trial were analysed usi...

objective: road traffic injuries (rtis) are the second leading causes of death in iran. one of the most important steps in the prevention of traffic-related trauma and its consequences is gaining insight into the epidemiology of injuries. we conducted this study to describe the characteristics of rtis and to find strategies for its prevention. methods: this was a prospective cross-sectional stu...

Background: The most common sports injury of the tennis players in the receiving ball is the injury of the shoulder joint and the shoulder rotator cuff. This research was aimed to find the diagnosis of shoulder joint injury and exploration of injury causes when receiving ball. Methods: 31 patients with shoulder joint injury caused by the receiving ball in three hospitals were selected from 2010...

BACKGROUND The relatively young sport of snowboarding exhibits high injury rates. The current efforts to characterise the injury pattern of snowboarders focus largely on the general snowboard population and upper extremity injuries, the most common injury site in snowboarders as a whole. METHODS In an effort to describe the current published information available on snowboarding injuries in t...