"wrestling induced cervical spondylosis, fact or fiction? a study conducted in 148 athletes "

Wrestling induced cervical spondylosis

Background: Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative process involving changes in soft tissue and bone of intervertebral discs. Objective: To evaluate wrestling induced cervical spondylosis. Methods: 83 male wrestlers with the age range of 15 to 55 were randomly studied against 79 non-wrestlers of the same age. Clinical and radiological assessments were carried out and recorded in both groups. Wr...

Sonofusion – Fact or Fiction?

Sonoluminescence and Sonofusion phenomena may occur when vapor bubbles implode. This paper reviews the status of our understanding of the bubble dynamics involved in these interesting phenomena. In particular, the experimental and analytical evidence supporting the observed production of neutrons and tritium due to thermonuclear fusion within imploding bubble clusters is reviewed. Moreover, pot...

NFRs : Fact or Fiction ?

Fact or fiction

Many previous studies have aimed at spermatogenesis of male murine germ cells in vitro, but no efficient system has been established yet that covers the entire process of mammalian spermatogenesis in a culture dish permanently. In this review, we report on the requirements of spermatogenesis and the current state of different culture methods using testicular tissue fragments, single cell suspen...

Morality: Fact or Fiction?

One cannot give too many or too frequent warnings against this laxity, or even mean cast of mind, which seeks its principle among empirical motives and laws; for, human reason in its weariness gladly rests on this pillow and in a dream of sweet illusions (which allow it to embrace a cloud instead of Juno) it substitutes for a morality a bastard patched up from limbs of quite diverse ancestry, w...

"Osmiophilia," Fact or Fiction?

At the present state of the art, it is appropriate to reexamine the relevance of the data and theory on the contribution of the deposits of osmium compounds in tissues fixed in Os04 to the contrast observed in electron micro-graphs of sections of such tissues. It is the purpose of this communication to note briefly the interrelationship of a number of crucial observations and opinions on this p...