Chronic stiff, aching left foot

Surgical treatment of advanced, stiff neurologic cavovarus foot in adults.

BACKGROUND Cavovarus foot is a complex, three-dimensional deformity of neuromuscular origin. A rigid cavovarus deformity causes difficulty in walking, instability, fatigue fractures, calluses and trophic ulcers in the overloaded lateral part of the foot and requires wearing orthopaedic shoes. The aim of the study was to evaluate current surgical techniques in the treatment of rigid cavovarus fo...

The Stiff Left Atrium Is to Atrial Fibrillation as the Stiff Left Ventricle Is to Diastolic Heart Failure.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiovascular disorder present in as many as 9% of subjects aged ≥65 years and costing the United States >26 billion dollars a year. It causes significant morbidity and mortality with 750 000 hospitalizations each year and contributing to an estimated 130 000 deaths each year. Risk factors for AF such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery di...

Factors associated with severity of symptoms in patients with chronic unexplained muscular aching.

Subjects with chronic, diffuse, unexplained muscular aching were recruited--21 from a primary care practice, nine from a rheumatology practice, and two from a pain clinic. No additional criteria were used to select subjects. Subjects with mild or moderate symptoms differed from those with severe symptoms with respect to the following characteristics: the presence of fatigue on awakening, the nu...

Her Aching Bones: Atypical Parathyroid Adenoma.

Treatment of stiff-person syndrome with chronic plasmapheresis.

Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is a disabling central nervous system disorder characterized by muscle stiffness, rigidity, and superimposed painful spasms affecting axial and proximal limb muscles. Electromyography shows continuous motor unit activity in axial muscles. There is strong evidence of an autoimmune pathogenesis for SPS. High levels of antibodies against the 65-kD isoform of glutamic ac...