Publications by authors named "Alfonso Tramontana"

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  • * 19.2% of rugby players showed signs of radiculopathy, and 73.1% reported needing pain relief for shoulder pain in the last six months.
  • * Monitoring both clinical symptoms and ultrasound findings can help identify and prevent silent shoulder injuries in rugby players.
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The intervertebral disk degeneration is a pathological process determined by a decrease of mucopolysaccharides in the nucleus pulposus with the consequent dehydration and degeneration of the elastic fibers in the annulus fibrosus of the disk. The laser is a therapeutic tool that has, on the treated tissues, biostimulation effects with an increase of oxidative phosphorylation and production of ATP with an acceleration of the mucopolysaccharides synthesis with a consequent rehydration, biostimulation and production of new elastic fibers. The goal of this project is studying whether the laser stimulation may treat degenerated intervertebral disks.

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