objectives: to investigate the clinical efficacy of physiotherapy with and without superficial dry needling on patients with knee pain; patellofemoral pain syndrome. methods: a randomized clinical trial conducted in 2015, tehran, iran. of patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome, thirty-four subjects were randomly divided into two groups (17 in each group). group a was subjected to physiother...

introduction: vitiligo is a cutaneous disorder of pigmentation, for which, there are some proven modalities of treatment. in this study, we evaluated the efficacy of the addition of topical pimecrolimus to 308nm excimer laser in reducing treatment duration and improving the response rate of eyelid vitiligo, compared with 308nm excimer laser monotherapy. methods: fifty two symmetrically localize...

background: bacteria in dental plaque are one of the main factors causing periodontal disease. the aim was to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of antimicrobial dentifrices with herbal extracts and conventional toothpaste with no antimicrobial action for improvement of oral hygiene  and reduction of gingival inflammation. methods: 48 volunteers with chronic marginal gingivitis were randoml...

conclusions results showed that the boiled anethum graveolens seeds was effective on labor induction. results case group had a significantly better bishop score following the intervention compared to the control group. the mean duration of active phase, second and third stages of labor were significantly lower in the case group. the control group had shorter latent phase than the case group. pa...

objective: this is a parallel, three group, randomized, controlled clinical trial, with outcomes evaluated up to three months after randomization for children and adolescents with chronic nail biting. the current study investigates the efficacy of habit reversal training (hrt) and compares its effect with object manipulation training (omt) considering the limitations of the current literature ....

3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coa reductase inhibitors (statins), are effective serum cholesterol-lowering agents which also have anti-inflammatory properties. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of atorvastatin on bronchial hyperresponsiveness. adult patients (age 14 to 65 years) with bronchial hyperresponsiveness (bhr) diagnosis based on the spirometry with methacholine challe...

background: this study intended to determine the effects of vitamin d and calcium?vitamin d in treating leg cramps in pregnant women. materials and methods: this study was conducted as a double?blind randomized controlled clinical trial on 126 participants, 18–35?year?old pregnant women with a minimum of two leg cramps per week who were referred to health?care centers in tabriz?iran in 2013. th...

conclusions decreases in the serum levels of liver aminotransferases and cytokines, in both groups, are related to low-calorie diets and exercise, rather than ptx. results the serum levels of liver aminotransferases were significantly reduced at 3 months and at 6 months, compared with baseline, in both groups. the serum levels of il-6 were significantly decreased, in both groups, only at 6 mont...