conclusions altogether, ozone had significant positive effects on patients with disk herniation unresponsive to other conservative and minimally invasive treatments. background disk herniation (dh) is one of the most common disk lesions, inducing low back pain (lbp). various therapeutic options have been proposed for treatment of disk herniation (dh). intradiscal injection of ozone has been sug...

background prematurity is an issue related to increasing the neonatal morbidity and mortality and smoking pregnant women cause the risk of low birth weight and prematurity increase, compared to non-smoking ones. results of all 205 women, 43 (20.97%) women exposed to shs during pregnancy and 162 (79.02%) women did not. in shs exposure group, 11 infant (25.6%) and in non- shs exposure group, 17 i...

in a retrospective study the clinical presentations, neurological findings, contrast studies, operative findings, and the follow-up results of 314 patients with disc herniation were studied over a 10-year period. this disease was most frequent between the ages of 30 to 40 and mostly in males. low back pain with or without radicular pain was the most frequent symptom, involving the left leg in t...

background: alterations in the neuromuscular control of the spine were found in patients with chronic low back pain (clbp). sudden loading of the spine is assumed to be the cause of approximately 12% of lower back injuries. however, some aspects of this problem, such as alterations in the sensory–motor control of the spine, remain questionable. this study investigated postural and neuro–motor c...

Dear Editor An important problem to manage diabetes mellitus is controlling the patients` blood glucose. Fluctuation of blood glucose results in molecular biochemistry change and can result in unwanted diabetic complications (1). In clinical practice, hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) is a common useful laboratory test to follow-up patients with diabetes (2). Sometimes, an unexpecte...