PURPOSE To determine characteristics responsible for improvement of low back pain after cervical laminoplasty for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. METHODS 18 men and 10 women aged 38 to 88 (mean, 71) years who had a low back pain visual analogue scale (VAS) score of 5 or more before cervical laminoplasty were included. In 12 patients the VAS score improved to 1 or <1 after surgery and remaine...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We analyzed the natural course of conservatively treated osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures from VERTOS II, a randomized trial of vertebroplasty and conservative therapy in 202 patients with vertebral compression fractures. We assessed the proportion of patients who developed chronic back pain and possible risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS In VERTOS II, the ...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE To compare the novel treatment procedure with nonoperative treatment for low back pain (LBP) in elderly patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Treatment of LBP associated with elderly DLS is controversial. We developed a novel treatment procedure, termed percutaneous intervertebral-vacuum polymethylmetha...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the association between ethnicity and health related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS The EuroQol EQ-5D measure was administered to 1,978 patients with type 2 diabetes in the UK Asian Diabetes Study (UKADS): 1,486 of south Asian origin (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or other south Asian) and 492 of whi...

OBJECTIVE To compare 2 clinical wound scales and to determine a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) on the visual analog cosmesis scale. METHODS Using data from 2 previously published clinical trials, 91 lacerations and 43 surgical incisions were assessed on the 2 scales; a 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS) (0 = worst possible scar, 100 = best possible scar) and a wound evaluation s...

This study investigates the efficacy of ultramicronized palmitoyletanolamide (PEA-um) in treating the clinical symptoms of Charcot-MarieTooth (CMT) Neuropathy. 22 CMT patients were assessed with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain, fatigue and cramps, at baseline (T0), and following 20 (T1) and 80 days (T2) treatment with 1200 mg/day of PEA-um. Electromyographic examination was performed both ...

Background: Haemorrhoidectomy remains the treatment of choice for symptomatic grade-III and IV hemorrhoids. Milligan and Morgan’s haemorrhoidectomy is the most widely used procedure in the surgical management of hemorrhoids. Aim: This study was done to evaluate and analyze statistically whether stapler haemorrhoidectomy is better than Milligan Morgan haemorrhoidectomy in terms of Post operative...

INTRODUCTION Given the importance of fracture healing on patient outcome in clinical practice, it is critical to assess fracture healing. AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of the Radiographic Union Score Hip fracture after treatment with intramedullary nail of stable hip fractures. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively collected the data from the clinical records o...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE No consensus exists regarding pain management during PV. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of local infiltration anesthesia as the only pain medication. MATERIALS AND METHODS From September 2008 to March 2009, 44 consecutive patients (35 women and 9 men; mean age, 74 years) with symptomatic OVCFs were included in the study. Lidocaine was infiltrated to the s...

We investigated the effects of a 5-h sleep restriction for 7 d on subjective sleepiness in an ambulatory condition by comparing them with baseline conditions consisting of an 8-h sleep for 7 consecutive days. Subjects were 13 healthy male students (mean age 21.1 yr). Each subject was required to get 8 h of sleep (baseline, from 2300 to 0700) for 7 d, and 5 h of sleep (sleep restriction, from 01...