BACKGROUND The profound physiologic effects of pregnancy affect the musculoskeletal system. Pregnant women are at increased risks of low back/pelvic girdle pains. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of low back/pelvic girdle pains among pregnant women. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted from May 1 to June 30, 2016, among consenting pregnant women at Aminu Kano...

What sort of children are they who complain of recurrent abdominal pains, and how do they compare with children who do not suffer from such pains? Because patients referred to hospital are inevitably pre-selected, we have tried to answer these questions by a survey of 1,000 unselected children at primary and secondary modem schools. One of us throughout the survey, and sometimes both, attended ...

Purpose The so called growing pains (GP) are affecting 4-37% of all children with a peak incidence in the preschool years. The underlying cause of this medically harmless but perturbing condition is still unknown. Although parasomnias (e.g., sleep terrors, sleep talking, sleep walking) share several common features with GP such as age at onset, daytime of appearance, self-limited course and com...

In this issue of the Southern Medical Journal, the review by J. Rubin on psychosomatic pain quoted a study in which it was found that “college students with chronic pain yielded a history of abuse (physical and/or sexual) in 43.5% of the females (275 subjects) and 23.8% of the males (151 subjects).” We suggest that as many victims of sexual abuse repress their memory of the incident(s), the act...

Excerpt: "We are accustomed to anabolic athletes, medicated musicians and souped-up students. Now it appears that we can add pill-popping professors to this list (Sahakian and Morein-Zamir 2007). " Cosmetic neurology " is the term I used to describe the practice of using neurologic interventions to improve movement, mood, and mentation in healthy individuals. The specific kinds of enhancements ...

An investigation was carried out in adults aged 20-60 years comparing the interaction of propanidid or thiopentone with the muscle relaxant suxamethonium. An attempt was made to correlate the apnoea time with the incidence and severity of muscle pains. No correlation was found between the apnoea times and the incidence of muscle pains. The overall incidence of muscle pains was 19 per cent. The ...

A 61-year-old South Asian woman, who has been living in England for over a decade, presented with back pain, fever and dysuria intermittently over the past three weeks and had been prescribed several antibiotics by her general practitioner for presumed urinary tract infections. However, urine microscopy and culture prior to initiation of further antibiotics of Gentamicin and Co-Amoxiclav did no...

The syndrome of this disease is observed in gunshot injuries large nerve trunks, abundantly supplied with vessels, and expressed unbearable, burning stabbing pains, which are aggravated at physical mental distresses the patient. These pains usually come on 2nd week after injury do not give patient any rest day or night. At same time, vasomotor disorders detected patients.