Klippel-Feil syndrome is a condition characterized by fusion of the spine owing to failure normal segmentation cervical structures. In this case report, we aimed describe rare syndrome, show findings using imaging techniques, and demonstrate its clinical importance. A 41-year-old female patient presented our faculty hospital with neck pain. Using magnetic resonance imaging, observed decreased a...

OBJECTIVE Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is associated with an increased risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Recent studies have suggested that VAT negatively affects bone. However, MetS has also been associated with higher estradiol (E2) levels, which is bone protective. We therefore investigated the impact of VAT and E2 levels on bone density, structural parameters, and strength estimates. DE...

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) along with post-operative syndrome in the lumbar spine shows confusing and duplicated symptoms, and this makes it difficult to make a clear differential diagnosis. Therefore, the patient with post-operative syndrome in the lumbar spine suffers losses of time and money, and the surgeon who diagnoses and treats post-operative syndrome in the lumbar spine also...

BACKGROUND Pain may reduce stability and increase falls and subsequent fractures in older men. OBJECTIVES To examine the association between joint pain and any pain with falls, hip and non-spine fractures in older community-dwelling men. DESIGN A cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Analyses included 5,993 community-dwelling men aged ≥65 years from the MrOS cohort. MEASUREMENTS Pain a...

snapping hip on flexion and extension of the hip during exercise or with the normal activities of daily living (1). Snapping hip syndrome is generally diagnosed by directly listening to the clicking sounds that are generated during the repeated flexion and extension of the hip or by palpating abnormal movement, and tenography (2), sonography and/or MR imaging have occasionally been used. The so...

CONTEXT In active individuals with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), the resultant reduction in functional range of motion leads to high impaction loads at terminal ranges. These increased forces result in compensatory effects on bony and soft tissue structures within the hip joint and hemipelvis. An algorithm is useful in evaluating athletes with pre-arthritic, mechanical hip pain and associ...

background: tea consumption is common in our country and consumes more than coffee and other drinks. many studies investigated the association between coffee and bone mass density (bmd) but there is few study about association between tea and bmd. according to high prevalence of osteoporosis in country and change in demographic patterns that is associated with increasing middle-aged and older a...

Introduction The incidence of degenerative osteoarthritis of the hip or knee joint and degenerative changes in the lumbar spine both increased with age. It was reported that lumbar lordosis and sacral inclination were related to the degree of extension of the hip, there may be an associated loss of lumbar lordosis. Many patients also have degenerative changes of the knee with loss of extension ...

OBJECTIVE The association between rarely used anthropometric measurements (e.g., mid-upper arm, forearm, and calf circumference) and metabolic syndrome has not been proven. The aim of this study was to assess whether mid-upper arm, forearm, calf, and waist circumferences, as well as waist/height ratio and waist-to-hip ratio, were associated with metabolic syndrome. METHODS We enrolled 387 sub...

BACKGROUND A Moroccan model for the FRAX tool to determine the absolute risk of osteoporotic fracture at 10 years has been established recently. The study aimed to assess the discriminative capacity of FRAX in identifying women with prevalent asymptomatic vertebral fractures (VFs). METHODS We enrolled in this cross-sectional study 908 post-menopausal women with a mean age of 60.9 years ± 7.7 ...