As they described in the background, this study aimed to (1) evaluate the relationship between generalized joint laxity (GJL) and lumbar disc herniation (LDH), and (2) compare clinical outcomes after conservative treatment in LDH patients with and without GJL. We understood that they used both the study group (patients with LDH) and the control group (without LDH) to explain (1), and presented ...

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BACKGROUND Lumbar disc herniation is a common and costly problem. Moxibustion is employed to relieve symptoms and might therefore act as a therapeutic alternative. Many studies have already reported encouraging results in heat-sensitive moxibustion for lumbar disc herniation. Hence, we designed a randomized controlled clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of heat-sensitive moxibustion...

objective(s) the aim of this study was to investigate the presence of per-1-type esbls in drug resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. materials and methods during one-year period (2008-2009), following isolation and identification of 56 p. aeruginosa, the e-test method was performed for determination of minimal inhibitory concentration of ceftazidim. the isolates that they had mic≥16 µg/ml ...

background and objective: early determination of antibacterial susceptibility increases the success of therapy, decreases unnecessary use of antibacterial agents and side-effects, and lowers the overall healthcare cost. materials and methods: a rapid colorimetric method for antibacterial susceptibility testing named qui-sensitest (inovative biotechnology organization, istanbul, turkey) was eval...

introduction: it has been shown that joint click, an initial and common finding in internal derangement (id), respond to neither conservative treatment nor surgical intervention. this raises the question as to whether it must be treated in the absence of other pertinent signs and symptoms, so the aim of this study was to investigate and compare the mri findings of tmj in both normal subjects an...