background: venoplasty and stenting is a minimally invasive therapy that can be used for patients with deep venous insufficiency in the lower extremities. this study aimed at investigating the effect of venoplasty and venous stenting in patients with chronic venous insufficiency in the lower limbs. methods : this prospective case-series study recruited patients with chronic deep venous insuffic...

background providing care for patients with chronic disability affects caregivers’ social lives and relationships and can lead to poor health and lower quality of life. objectives in this study, our goal was to assess the quality of life in spouses of war veterans with bilateral lower limb amputations to find factors affecting caregivers’ quality of life. patients and methods in a cross-section...

the goal of this study was to define the normal range of diameter in the deep vein of the lower limb and to compare this range with diameter of the veins with acute thrombosis and of veins with chronic thrombosis by using color doppler sonography. the study was cross sectional. the vein diameter and vein to artery ratio in different levels were measured and the following results were obtained. ...

Background Variations of foot type, such as a lowor high-arched foot, are thought to be an intrinsic risk factor for lower extremity injury. One of the proposed mechanisms by which foot posture may contribute to injury is via altered motion of the lower extremity. Therefore, the aim of this review was to investigate the relationship between foot type and dynamic lower limb and foot kinematics d...

OBJECTIVE To study injury patterns of snowboarding trauma in children. DESIGN A retrospective case series. SETTING A major pediatric trauma centre. PATIENTS A cohort of 113 children (97 boys, 16 girls), mean age 13.9 years, who sustained 118 injuries secondary to snowboarding. INTERVENTIONS All fractures were treated by immobilization in a cast; 19 children required a closed reduction. ...

  Background: Electrical injury is daily compromise of our life and upper and lower extremities   are common sites of injury .   Case Presentation: A 23 years old man who had suffered high voltage electrical injury referred   to our center. He had severe left upper extremity burn and suffered from head and thoracic   injuries due to falling down from high altitude.   Treatment: Fasciotomy of th...

objective(s): we investigated a frequency of lower extremity uptake on the radioactive iodine (rai) whole body scan (wbs) after rai treatment in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, in order to retrospectively examine whether or not the frequency was pathological. methods: this retrospective study included 170 patients with thyroid cancer, undergoing rai treatment. overall, 99r (58%) an...

[Purpose] The study investigated the effects of lower extremity injuries on aerobic exercise capacity, anaerobic power, and knee isokinetic muscular function in high school soccer players. [Subjects and Methods] The study assessed U High School soccer players (n=40) in S area, South Korea, divided into 2 groups: a lower extremity injury group (n=16) comprising those with knee and ankle injuries...

Background Medical screening and load monitoring procedures are commonly used in professional football to assess factors perceived to be associated with injury. Objectives To identify prognostic factors (PFs) and models for lower extremity and spinal musculoskeletal injuries in professional/elite football players from medical screening and training load monitoring processes. Methods The MED...