Objectives. – After several decades of stability, polio survivors often experience new signs and symptoms of their condition, characterized by global and muscular fatigue, decreased muscular strength and pain. The hypothesis of a potential underlying psychological component has been

The essential targets of dry eye disease (DED) treatments include both objective signs and subjective symptoms. However, due to the numerous subjective symptoms, it is understandable why little association has been found between the signs and symptoms. Although psychological influences on the subjective symptoms have been reported, little is known about the influence of personality traits. The ...

In a number of Internet sources, including Wikipedia, and even in some scientific papers, the role AUE organization ([Ares’tantskoe urka’ganskoe e’dinstvo] – “Prisoner unity” or [Ares’tantskij uk’lad e’din] “Unified prisoner order”) is quite underestimated. There reduced exclusively to pranks teenagers aged 13-17 who merely imitate criminal environment form, but not essence. From such explanati...

OBJECTIVE To use established psychological scales to measure levels of distress, anxiety and depression in veterinarians, and compare these levels between different veterinary subgroups and other professional groups. METHODS A cohort of veterinarians was identified through contact with veterinary schools in Australia. Participants completed a self-reporting questionnaire that included queries...

STUDY DESIGN Inception cohort study. OBJECTIVES To examine the clinical course of acute low back pain and to evaluate prognostic factors for nonrecovery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Few studies have explored clinical course and prognostic factors in patients who consult primary care for their first time because of an episode of low back pain of <3 weeks duration. METHODS A total of 123 pat...

We investigated the incidence of evidence of irritation of the brachial plexus in 119 patients with whiplash injuries sustained in road-traffic accidents. We compared the symptoms, physical signs, autonomic status, psychological status and findings from radiographs of the cervical spine using examination charts and a modified Cornell Medical Index Health questionnaire, in patients in two distin...

Background: Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a variety of lupus disease characterized with sticky thick scaces telangiectasia and follicular plugging. Objectives: To determine the relative frequency of clinical, paraclinical and pathological findings in patients with DLE. Patients and Methods: The clinical, Paraclinical and pathological findings in 50 biopsy proven patients with DLE referre...