[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine changes in the muscle tone and stiffness of the lumbar region while individuals adopted the static prone position using sling suspension. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 30 healthy women in their 20s. The muscle tone and stiffness of the upper and lower lumbar regions of the sling suspension group and a control group were measured usin...

CONCLUSION Sling snoreplasty could be a new effective palatal snoring procedure with minimal side effects. It could be combined with other snoring and sleep apnea operations. OBJECTIVES To introduce sling snoreplasty with a permanent thread. PATIENTS AND METHODS The procedure is performed under local anesthesia and in the sitting position. The instrument requirements include a nylon no. 4 s...

Introduction and Objective. Iatrogenic male stress urinary incontinence (SUI) affects a percentage of men undergoing urologic procedures with a significant impact on quality of life. The treatment of male SUI has evolved significantly with multiple current options for treatment available. The current paper discusses preoperative evaluation of male SUI, available surgical options with reported o...

The hangers of a suspension bridge is one of the most important stressed members, the thorough research of the deterioration during operation period and the security analysis after the degeneration of hangers is essential. This is the basis of the strategy of preventive maintenance of suspension bridges. Firstly, the paper studies the four stages of degradation mechanisms of sling and calculati...

purpose: to compare the results of two different methods of frontalis suspension using fascia lata in congenital ptosis. methods: in a randomized clinical trial, double triangle sling was compared with single triangle sling using fascia lata. eight patients with unilateral and 11 patients with bilateral congenital ptosis were randomly assigned for each procedure. results: there was no statistic...

PURPOSE The incidence of urinary incontinence in women of childbearing age is about 30%. Around half have stress incontinence. Many treatment modalities have been elucidated to treat stress incontinence, and among the most popular are rectus fascia sling and tension-free vaginal tape (TVT). The introduction of TVT to the urological armamentarium put a multiplicity of synthetic materials into us...

Inbred BALB/c mice are genetically the same, yet less than half of adults show absent or small corpus callosum. Is this because only a minority has prenatal defects of the sling at the telencephalic midline, or do most fetuses have a defective sling but some are able to form a corpus callosum via some other substrate pathway? This question was addressed by comparing large samples of BALB/c fetu...

PURPOSE Post-prostatectomy incontinence remains a problem, even in minor or moderate degrees. In order to minimize surgical morbidity and costs, sling procedures have been proposed. The authors have developed a new transobturator male sling procedure and report their results after one-year experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective multicenter study was conducted in 50 patients with mino...

UNLABELLED The three-dimensional configuration of mid-urethral sling tapes is difficult to demonstrate in traditional anatomical dissections or imaging studies. The aim of this study was to test the utility of a novel technique using mesh tapes to assess spatial differences between the in-out and out-in transobturator mid-urethral slings. Two independent surgeons performed their usual transobtu...

Stroke patients often use various arm slings, but the effects of different slings on the joint kinematics and muscle activity of the arm in the gait have not been investigated. The effects of joint kinematics and muscle activity in the gait were investigated to provide suggestions for gait training for stroke patients. In all, 10 chronic stroke patients were voluntarily recruited. An eight-came...