Introduction Lumbar disc herniation, a chronic degenerative disease, is one of the major contributors to low back pain and disability. Although many studies have been conducted in past on brain function pain, most these did not classify (cLBP) patients according their etiology. The lack etiologic classification may lead inconsistencies between findings, correlation differences activation clinic...

AIMS To examine the relationships between psychosocial factors and reported pain in Colombians with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). METHODS One hundred and three RA patients [85% from the lowest socio-economic strata (SES) in the country] recruited from outpatient centers in Neiva, Colombia were administered the Disease Activity Scale (DAS) , which included a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) arthritis pa...

AIMS The aim of the study was to evaluate the correlations between clinical symptoms (pain), physical examination, ultrasound (US), and radiological findings in patients with bilateral knee osteoarthritis (OA). MATERIAL AND METHODS Knee pain was appreciated during medial and lateral palpation of each knee joint and using visual analogue scale (VAS) and The Western Ontario and McMaster Univers...

OBJECT Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) is used to treat a wide variety of lumbar degenerative disorders. Although there are some reports showing efficacy of unilateral instrumentation during MIS-TLIF, a controlled randomized prospective study has not been done. METHODS Forty-one patients were randomly assigned to receive either bilateral or unilateral inst...

BACKGROUND Viscosupplementation has been widely used for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. Because we found no well-controlled trial comparing single-injection regimens of hyaluronan for knee osteoarthritis, we compared the efficacy and safety of a single intra-articular injection of a novel cross-linked hyaluronan (HYA-JOINT Plus) with a single injection of Synvisc-One in patients with kne...

Objective: To study the establishment and clinical application of multidisciplinary collaborative rapid rehabilitation nursing model in patients with brucellosis spondylitis during perioperative period. Method: From January 2009 to 2013, 39 diagnosed were treated focal clearance combined posterior pedicle internal fixation. Nursing was randomly divided into 2 groups: 19 cases routine as control...

BACKGROUND The EQ-5D is a brief, generic measure of health status that can be easily incorporated into population health surveys. There are two versions of the EQ-5D for use in adult populations, one with 3 response levels in each of the instrument's 5 dimensions (EQ-5D-3L) and one with 5 levels in each dimension (EQ-5D-5L). We compared the two versions as measures of self-reported health statu...

Abstract The measurement of health-related quality life (HRQoL) pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients is important since TB significantly affects the patient’s health and sufferings worldwide. HRQoL indicates consciousness regarding their physical mental health. It is, therefore, very relevant in comprehending measuring exact impact disease state. current study assessed correlation between EQ-5D...

Objective: A randomized controlled study was conducted in order to determine the effect of ginger kidney compress applied waist region for 30 minutes seven days on severity pain and physical functions individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
 Material-Method: This is a trial study. The sample included 124 patients; 43 compresses, 41 hot 40 control groups. data were collected using Patient In...