BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is beneficial in patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. However, randomized trials have not provided evidence concerning the optimal CEA technique, conventional or eversion. METHODS The outcome of 563 patients within the surgical randomization arm of the Stent-Protected Angioplasty versus Carotid Endarterectomy in Symptomatic Pat...

OBJECTIVE Functional ankle instability (FAI) afflicts many athletes. Several causes of FAI have been implicated, including peroneal muscle weakness. Traditional musculoskeletal rehabilitation programs have focused on concentric muscle strength. The purpose of our study was to compare concentric and eccentric isokinetic and isometric eversion ankle strength measurements between subjects identifi...

Below-knee amputation is associated with higher energy expenditure during walking, partially due to difficulty maintaining balance. We previously found that once-per-step push-off work control can reduce balance-related effort, both in simulation and in experiments with human participants. Simulations also suggested that changing ankle inversion/eversion torque on each step, in response to chan...

INTRODUCTION Perforations of jejunal diverticula are uncommon and repeated symptomatic perforations have been reported only twice before in the literature. This is the first case report of recurrent perforation of a jejunal diverticulum to be successfully managed non-operatively. CASE PRESENTATION We report a recurrent perforation of a jejunal diverticulum in an 87-year-old Caucasian man who ...

BACKGROUND The Foot Posture Index (FPI) provides an easily applicable, validated method for quantifying static foot posture. However there is limited evidence relating to the ability of the FPI to predict dynamic foot function. This study aimed to assess the relationship between dynamic rearfoot motion and FPI scores in pronated and normal foot types. METHODS 40 participants were recruited wi...

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the inversion/eversion muscle strength balance of the ankle in patients with medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS). A dysbalance of these muscles may play a role in the pathophysiology of MTSS. Another aim is to measure the medial longitudinal arch and navicular drop in patients with MTSS. A total of 11 patients diagnosed with MTSS in the outpatien...

The cascade stomach (CS) is characterized as a changing of the gastric cavity to “hour glass" two chambers formation. disease well presented in gastroenterological and radiological literature. In case failure conservative treatment, surgery indicated. Unfortunately, information operative treatment this condition limited. We present CS successfully treated by creation gastro-jejunal jejuno-jejun...

For decades, the sphere eversion has been a favorite subject for mathematical visualization. The 1998 video The Optiverse shows minimax eversions, computed automatically by minimizing elastic bending energy using Brakke’s Evolver. We contrast these geometrically optimal eversions with earlier ones, including those by Morin, Phillips,