OBJECTIVES The study objectives were to evaluate the efficacy of integrating hatha yoga therapy with therapeutic exercises for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee joints. DESIGN This was a prospective, randomized, active controlled trial. Two hundred and fifty (250) participants who had OA knees and who were between 35 and 80 years (yoga 59.56±9.54) and (control 59.42±10.66) from the outpatient d...

Abstract A 4-year-old, 25 kg, male, castrated, crossbreed dog was referred after having been driven over by a trailer 3 days prior. On examination, the unable to ambulate on pelvic limbs. There crepitus, soft tissue swelling and pain manipulation of tarsi, with bilateral rotational suspected mild lateral instability. Radiographs identified talocalcaneal luxation dorsal displacement head talus a...

A 16-year-old male was brought to the emergency department by ambulance after being found lying unresponsive on an overturned motorcycle. He was orotracheally intubated. He had palpable subcutaneous crepitus over the chest and abdomen with massive scrotal swelling, and his back exam revealed multiple penetrating wounds (Figure 1). Autopsy results found five rightsided posterior thoracic gunshot...

Osteoarthritis is a chronic, progressive disease of the articular joints, and to date, has no cure or effective longterm treatment. Objective: To determine if bone marrow prolotherapy (BMP), a combined treatment protocol employing separate injections of hypertonic dextrose prolotherapy and bone marrow aspirate, would be effective as a means of reducing joint pain and improving function in osteo...

The Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is the most common knee complaint seen in adolescent and young adults. Pain in the knee is usually anterior, not well localized, and diffuse. The purpose of this study was to analyze which of the presumed physical examination signs which can be present in an asymptomatic population are a consequence of intrinsic risk factors for this disease. 263 patients...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Autologous osteochondral transplantation (OCT) is an established method of treating articular cartilage defects in the knee. However, the potential for donor site morbidity remains a concern. Both the restoration of the original cartilage defect and the evolution of the donor site defects can be evaluated by bone scintigraphy. Thus, we performed a prospective bone scintig...

ly. Physical examination showed that the patient could freely uplift his head for more than 5 s, and had a strong handshake with the normal train-of-four ratio. Although snoring persisted, the patient could not tolerate oropharyngeal airway. Marked subcutaneous crepitus was now obvious, especially in the area of the cheek, neck, chest, abdomen, and limbs. Subcutaneous emphysema was apparent. Af...

Background: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic inflammatory disease usually involves peripheral joints with a symmetric distribution. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) seldom to be affected first in course. Objectives: Aim of our study describe and assess prevalence (TMJ)disorders patients arthritis (RA). Methods: A cross sectional including RA patients, which consulted or wer...

Moni Muljee, a female child, aged 4, was brought in an unconscious state with scalp wounds into the Eden Hospital, on 6th June 1896, at 6-30 p.m. The friends stated, that the child had a fall from the second story of a house about 16 feet high, on a brick pavement floor, about half an hour before admission The child was picked up insensible and was immediately removed to hospital. On admission,...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to develop a patient-based measure of the severity of osteoarthritis of the knee, focusing on symptomatology, that may be used in conjunction with measures of health-related quality of life in monitoring the health status of outpatients. METHODS We surveyed a random sample of male outpatients at Boston-area Veterans Affairs medical centers who were identified as h...