Aim. To report the case of congenital bilateral upper eyelid eversion with severe chemosis that was successfully managed conservatively. Report. The patient was a six-hour-old male neonate with bilateral congenital upper eyelid eversion and severe chemosis, following uneventful delivery. Conservative management consisted of the application of antibiotic ointment and padding the exposed conjunct...

PURPOSE To report a case of complete bilateral congenital upper eyelid eversion associated with severe chemosis in a newborn, and to describe a semi-invasive technique for its management. CASE REPORT The patient was a four-hour-old Nigerian neonate with bilateral congenital upper eyelid eversion with severe and progressive chemosis. Conservative management failed to resolve the condition. How...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the changes of ankle strength and range of motion with aging and which of the ankle strength and range of motion are contributed to balance. METHODS Sixty healthy people (24 men and 36 women) have undergone tests for ankle strength and range of motion, using Biodex System 4 Pro; a one-leg balance, including postural sway and stability index using a Balance System; in ...

INTRODUCTION Exercise-related lower leg pain (ERLLP) is a common and enigmatic overuse problem in athletes and military populations [1]. Runners, track athletes and athletes participating in jumping sports are frequently diagnosed with ERLLP which is usually induced by repetitive tibial strain imposed by loading during intensive, weight bearing activities. Retrospective and prospective studies ...

Jejunal diverticulosis is a rare gastrointestinal condition manifested as benign outpouching from the jejunal wall. It is usually asymptomatic, but may present as obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. This condition is often found incidentally in the imaging work-up of patients with other gastrointestinal conditions. We present a case of jejunal diverticulosis in a 65-year-old gentleman with obscu...

BACKGROUND This study aims to evaluate the rotation and translation of each joint in the hindfoot and compare the differences in healthy foot with that in stage II PTTD flatfoot by analyzing the reconstructive three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) image data during several extreme positions. METHODS CT scans of 20 healthy feet and 20 feet with stage II PTTD flatfoot were taken in ma...

Background: The majority of injuries reported in female basketball players are ankle sprains and mechanisms leading to injury have been debated. Investigations into muscular imbalances in barefoot versus shod conditions and their relationship with injury severity have not been performed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wearing athletic shoes on muscular strength and ...

We consider an eversion of a sphere driven by a gradient flow for elastic bending energy. We start with a halfway model which is an unstable Willmore sphere with 4-fold orientation-reversing rotational symmetry. The regular homotopy is automatically generated by flowing down the gradient of the energy from the halfway model to a round sphere, using the Surface Evolver. This flow is not yet full...

Our 1998 video The Optiverse [18] illustrates an optimal sphere eversion, computed automatically by minimizing an elastic bending energy for surfaces. This paper describes AVN, the custom software program we wrote to explore the computed eversion. Various special features allowed us to use AVN also to produce our video: it controlled the camera path throughout and even rendered most of the frames.

We give a short, simple and conceptual proof, based on spin structures, of sphere eversion: an embedded 2-sphere in R can be turned inside out by regular homotopy. Ingredients of this eversion are seamlessly connected. We also give the mathematical origins of the proof: the Hopf fibration, and the topological structure of real-projective 3-space.