Osteoporosis is a systemic disease of the skeleton, characteri­zed by decrease in bone mass and qualitative changes structure, which lead to increased fragility risk of fractures. Objective. To analyze published information on awareness women United States, Europe Ukraine about osteoporosis postmenopausal period. It estimated that general, 50 % most countries do not receive drug therapy are una...

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Despite fact that orthopedists are not considered front-line staff in fight against pandemic, has had an enormous impact orthopedics daily practice. A few studies have looked at effect field, but none of 1-year especially Indonesia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional multi-...

Introduction: To compare orthopaedic trauma cases treated surgically in our clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic Turkey with surgically-treated previous periods, and to discuss these light of literature. Materials Methods: Patient data 3 different periods were compared. Group 1 included time period March 11 - May 30, when hospital was operating as a for Turkey. 2 from equivalent year before pand...

BACKGROUND Increased complaints by school students about back and shoulder pain and discomfort have raised concerns among parents, education professionals, and orthopedists and these discomforts may be because of schoolbag carriage. The aim of this study was to investigate of relationship of musculoskeletal symptoms with weight of backpack in Tehran secondary school students. METHODS This cro...

BACKGROUND Inclination and anteversion were the main factors that determined the reliability of the acetabulum. Inclination and anteversion measurements included anatomical, operational and radiographic methods. The aim of our present study was to exhibit divergence of inclination and anteversion via the three measurements. METHODS Inclination and anteversion were defined according to the def...

OBJECTIVE To determine if the quality of medical imaging reports differs significantly between radiologists and nonradiologists. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective nonblinded review of randomly selected chest and long bone x-ray reports by orthopedists and primary care physicians compared with randomly selected imaging reports generated by radiologists. METHODS We randomly selected 1 report from ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of occipitalization of the atlas among Thai dried skulls, in order to contribute to baseline awareness of this condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS The skulls of 633 adult Thais from the collection maintained in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, were examined for evidence of occip...

BACKGROUND It is crucial to recognize and understand anatomical features of the distal femoral condyles especially for orthopedists that take care of the elderly patient with leg deformity. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the rotational alignment of the distal femur by using axial radiographic technique. MATERIAL AND METHOD Thirty-six normal volunteers (72 knees) were enrolled in the present study. Mean...

This research provides an analytical tool, fuzzy decision support system (FDSS), to find the precedence of jeopardy in occupations spawning shoulder and neck pain (SNP), an important musculoskeletal disorder and the most ubiquitous pain complaint in an occupational environment. FDSS evaluates and prioritizes the relative importance of the imprecise, uncertain and vague nature of risk factors ca...

Articles that update the state of knowledge regarding osteoporosis run the risk of quickly becoming obsolete because research and studies on osteoporosis today are arousing great interest among researchers, the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries, governments and even WHO. All orthopedists know about osteoporosis because of its most deleterious effect: osteoporotic fracture. Osteopo...