CLINICAL CASE Patient: A 28 year old man, Caucasian. Chief complain 3/2000: Redness and light sensitivity in both eyes. Past ocular history: Two year history of bilateral keratitis treated with topical steroids with initial improvement and subsequently become unresponsive. Past medical history: Idiopathic hearing loss since 1996, unresponsive to systemic cyclophosphamide and high doses of predn...

objectives: aim of this study is to investigate the initial effect of taping technique on wrist extension and grip strength and pain of individuals with tennis elbow. methods: fifteen patients (10 men and 5 women with 42.53 years) on their dominant arm participated in this study. outcome measures were wrist extension and grip strength and pain taken before and immediately after application of t...

  Background: Nonspecific symptoms are common in all areas of medicine. Patients and caregivers can be frustrated when an illness cannot be reduced to a discrete pathophysiological process that corresponds with the symptoms. We therefore asked the following questions: 1) Which demographic factors and psychological comorbidities are associated with change from an initial diagnosis of nonspecific...

pancoast tumor accounts for 3%-5% of all non-small cell lung carcinomas. this tumor has a distinct clinical presentation through local invasion and the resulting clinical entity called pancoast syndrome. this syndrome includes severe shoulder pain, arm pain, and horner’s syndrome andatrophy of forearm and hand muscles. the differential diagnosis of arm and shoulder pain is extensive. thoracic o...

Background: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common auto-immune disease in children and pain a symptom. Despite treatment advances recent years, often persists when inactive. Treating JIA to target has been widely recommended 1 , but effectiveness reduction not proven yet 2 . Objectives: To compare scores over two years three arms patients that were treated identify baseline char...

BACKGROUND Perception of vibration induced illusionary movement (VIIM) is subnormal in dystonic patients, suggesting abnormal sensory-motor processing in patients with idiopathic focal dystonia. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of fatigue on VIIM in patients with idiopathic torticollis. METHODS An illusionary sensation of arm extension was evoked by an 80 Hz transcutaneous vibratory stimulu...

BACKGROUND Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is the most common spinal deformity occurring in adolescents and its established prevalence varies from 2 to 3%. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been identified as a potential risk factor for the development of low back pain in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to systematically review studies of the prevalence of low back pain in adolesce...