OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of cervical spine radiography in injured children under 11 years old, and suggest improvements. METHODS Retrospective survey of radiographs and accident and emergency records for children examined during a one year period in a large teaching hospital. RESULTS No cervical spine fractures occurred in this age group during the year. The recorded clinical ...

Background: During lactation, metabolic changes in the bone in different areas of the body may affect the amount of bone mineral density.The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between breastfeeding and bone mineral density in women. Materials and Methods:  In this study, articles were searched at Cochran, Medline (via PubMed), Scopus, and Web of Science databases until June 201...

Physicians are often faced with managing difficult conditions such as chronic lower back pain. Intervertebral disk herniation typically occurs horizontally, leading to impingement of the spinal cord which can potentially cause radicular symptoms or other spinal cord pathologies; however, disk herniations can also occur vertically and extend through the endplate of an adjacent cranial or caudal ...

The transition from conventional screen-film radiography (SFR) to computed radiography (CR) or digital radiography (DR) can involve an increase in patient radiation doses due to the wide dynamic range of the digital imaging systems, which allows overexposure with no adverse effect on image quality. The current study intends to measure and compare the radiation dose to adult patients during (i) ...

Besides the study on examining facet joints of lumbar spine by ultrasound in normal population, there has not been any related report about examining normal facet joints of lumbar spine by ultrasound so far. This study was aimed to explore the feasibility of ultrasound assessment of lumber spine facet joints by comparing ultrasound measure values of normal and degenerative lumber spine facet jo...

PURPOSE The Canadian C-spine (cervical spine) Rule (CCR) and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Low-Risk Criteria (NLC) are criteria designed to guide C-spine radiography in trauma patients. It is unclear how these 2 rules compare with young children. METHODS This study retrospectively examined case-matched trauma patients 10 years or younger. Two cohorts were identified-cohort ...

background studies show that a large proportion of healthcare offered may be inappropriate or unnecessary. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a new and expensive diagnostic technology which has been increasingly used all over the world. moreover, this trend has been more rapidly increasing in iran. low back pain is a common disorder all over the world and mri technique is one of the several wa...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to establish normative values for active lumbar movement in children five, seven, nine, and 11 years of age. METHODS End range active flexion, extension, and right- and left-side bending and rotation of the lumbar spine were measured for 225 normally developing children (116 girls, 109 boys) using the Back Range of Motion (BROM II) device. Means were dete...

The link between static and dynamic landing lumbar postures, when gymnasts are exposed to large ground reaction forces, has not been established. This investigation aimed to (a) determine if a relationship exists between sagittal static and dynamic landing lumbar spine angles at peak ground reaction force (GRF) and (b) quantify how close to end-range postures the gymnasts were at landing peak G...