The acute onset of neck pain and arm weakness is most commonly due to cervical radiculopathy or inflammatory brachial plexopathy. Rarely, extracranial vertebral artery dissection may cause radiculopathy in the absence of brainstem ischemia. We describe a case of vertebral artery dissection presenting as cervical radiculopathy in a previously healthy 43-year-old woman who presented with proximal...

Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of conservative treatment in patients with and without cervical ribs and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS). From so many kinds of conservative treatment in literature, we used a multidisciplinary approach (correction of posture, maximizing muscle endurance and power, stretch shorten muscles, massage for trigger points and maximize th...

BACKGROUND Calcification of the yellow ligament sometimes compresses the spinal cord and can induce myelopathy. Usually, the calcification does not induce acute neck pain. We report a case of a patient with acute neck pain caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate in a calcified cervical yellow ligament. CASE PRESENTATION A 70-year-old Japanese woman presented with acute neck pain. She had a ...

BACKGROUND Headache or neck pain is a frequent symptom of spontaneous cervical artery dissection (sCAD). PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients were drawn from an ongoing hospital-based registry of consecutive cases diagnosed with sCAD. Only patients with isolated pain were included in this series. Pain topography, dynamics, severity and quality, imaging findings and outcome were analysed. RESULTS 2...

background: today application of computer in the life of people is very common and those who work with computer in especially long – term are faced with musculoskeletal pains. the aim of this study was to investigate risk factors of musculoskeletal and joint pains among computer users in rafsanjan city in the years 2012-13. materials and methods: in this descriptive study, 420 computer users we...

o bjectives: to determine  the effects of meperidine (pethedine®)  on pain intensity, clinical findings, final diagnosis and management of patients with acute abdominal pain. m e thods: this was a randomized clinical trial including 100 patients, with lower abdominal pain lasting for less than 48 hours who were referred to the emergency department of imam khomeini hospital affiliated with ilam ...

background for coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) sternotomy should be performed. the pain after surgery is severe and requires medical intervention. use of the analgesics is limited by their side effects and studies suggest that prevention with some medications before surgery is effective in controlling the postoperative pain. objectives we investigated the efficacy of pregabalin administr...

Objective: Hematometra is a rare and delayed complication of medical termination of pregnancy. Acquired acute hematometra also termed the postabortal syndrome or the redo syndrome is a rare complication of suction evacuation with incidence ranging from 0.1 to 1 per 100 suction curettage abortions. The treatment consists of prompt evacuation of both liquid and clotted blood leading to rapid reso...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Cutaneous vasculitis is a devastating extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis. The potential consequences of digital vasculitis are necrosis, ischemia, infarction, and eventually gangrene. METHODS A 54-year-old woman with a long history of rheumatoid arthritis developed an acute onset of severe diffuse occlusive cutaneous vasculitis beyond the head of t...