Effective chronic low back pain and knee pain treatment with acupuncture in geriatric patients.

Background: The most common disease of the older age group in Turkey is degenerative articular disease and pain associated with the disease. Analgesics and physical therapy are preferred treatment for geriatric chronic pain but suffering from multiple medical and nutritional problems in old ages can limit treatment options with analgesics due to an increased risk of adverse effects and drug interactions.

Objectives: We aim to show the effect of acupuncture on back-pain and knee-pain treatment of elderly people.

Qualitative comparison of anatomical microdissection, Sihler's staining and computerized reconstruction methods for visualizing intramuscular nerve branches.

Unlabelled: STATING BACKGROUND: This study was designed to examine the entire intramuscular nerve distribution pattern of various human skeletal muscles in fetuses.

Methods: In the present study rhomboid major, trapezius, long head of the biceps femoris and masseter muscles were investigated in five 18 weeks old fetal cadavers. Anatomical microdissection was applied to one fetal cadaver.

Observation of the relationship between the shape of skeletal muscles and their nerve distribution patterns: a transparent and microanatomic study.

Background: There are many gaps in the understanding of the neuroanatomy of skeletal muscles with regards to the nerve distribution pattern and shape of the muscles. This study was designed to examine the entire intramuscular nerve-distribution patterns of various human skeletal muscles.

Methods: The relationships among nine skeletal muscles with various architecture (rhomboid major, biceps brachii, flexor pollicis longus, rectus femoris, sternohyoid, trapezius, masseter, digastric muscles) and their nerve-distribution patterns were investigated in four fetal cadavers using the Sihler staining method.

Axillopectoral muscle (Langer's muscle).

In a routine dissection of the axillary fossa, a muscle originating from the coracoid process of the scapula and extending to the long head of triceps brachii muscle was observed. The mentioned muscle was adhering to both the triceps brachii muscle and the tendinous part of the latissimus dorsi muscle. This anatomical variation is referred to as axillary arch (Langer's muscle or axillopectoral muscle).

Variations in the anatomy of the auriculotemporal nerve.

The common representation of the auriculotemporal nerve is either that of a single posterior branch of the mandibular nerve or of two roots that envelope the middle meningeal artery. Our observation in the anatomy of the auriculotemporal nerve on 32 dissections (16 cadaveric heads) of the infratemporal fossa included: one specimen with four roots (3.1%), three specimens with three roots (9.

Demonstration of the nerve distribution of the extraocular muscles in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).

Purpose: The intramuscular nerve distribution of the extraocular muscles may be of utmost importance for better understanding of their physiologic and pathologic reactions. The aim of this study was to determine the entire intramuscular nerve distribution pattern of rabbit extraocular muscles by utilizing Sihler's staining technique.

Methods: Six New Zealand rabbits were used in order to demonstrate the intramuscular nerve distribution of the extraocular muscles by using Sihler's staining method.