Clinical properties and rehabilitation needs of earthquake survivors in a subacute rehabilitation setting.

Background: This descriptive analysis examines the victims of the February 6, 2023, earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş and Elbistan, Türkiye. It aims to detail the injury profiles related to neuro-musculoskeletal trauma, assess the rehabilitation needs of patients, and propose a comprehensive rehabilitation approach.

Methods: The study included patients injured in the Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquake on February 6, 2023, who were transported to our hospital based on their rehabilitation needs.

The relationship between kinesiophobia, balance, and upper extremity functions in patients with painful shoulder pathology.

Background: Poor balance ability may contribute to shoulder pathology in patients with existing shoulder pathologies or vice versa. The relationship between kinesiophobia and chronic shoulder pain intensity has been researched, although the conclusions are conflicting. To our knowledge, no study in the literature explores the association between kinesiophobia and balance in patients with shoulder pain.

The treatment challenge of heterotopic ossification in a patient with Parkinson's disease and stroke.

Objective: Neurogenic heterotopic ossification (HO) is characterized by bone formation in a non-anatomical site. It is usually seen in patients with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. It occurs less frequently in other types of acquired brain injury.

Physical activity, musculoskeletal disorders, sleep, depression, and quality of life before and after bariatric surgery.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate physical activity, sleep, depression, quality of life, and musculoskeletal problems pre- and postoperatively in morbidly obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery and analyze the factors that are strongly associated with physical activity.

Patients And Methods: This prospective study conducted between January 2016 and May 2017 included 27 patients (4 males, 23 females; mean age 37.1±10.

Factors predicting reoperation after hand flexor tendon repair.

Background: This single-center, retrospective study aims to analyze the sociodemographic, injury characteristics, and the total number of lost working days of patients undergoing hand flexor tendon repair and to identify factors predicting reoperation.

Methods: Hand flexor tendon repairs conducted using a four-strand modified Kessler core suture with early rehabilitation from January 2013 to December 2016 were included in this study. The variables evaluated in this study were patient sociodemographic and injury characteristics, number of lost working days, and reoperations because of rupture and/or adhesion formation.

Early improvement in physical activity and function after total hip arthroplasty: Predictors of outcomes.

Objectives: This study aims to assess early changes in physical activity and function after total hip arthroplasty (THA) using both subjective and objective methods, and to identify predictors of outcomes of THA.

Patients And Methods: Between October 2014 and October 2015, a total of 50 patients (14 males, 36 females; mean age 57.1±13.

A comprehensive ultrasonographic investigation of the common flexor tendon and medial epicondyle in asymptomatic individuals.

Aim: To investigate the common flexor tendon (CFT) thickness and the frequency of ultrasound (US) pathological alterations in its structure in a healthy population and to evaluate if these findings can be correlated with dominant hand, age, gender, body mass index, workload, menopause status.

Material And Methods: The study population consisted of 111 healthy volunteers. Bilateral CFT thicknesses were measured at 5 mm, 10 mm and 15 mm distance to medial epicondyle.

The neuropathic pain component among patients with chronic low back-radicular pain.

Objectives: Determining neuropathic pain component (NPC) among patients with chronic low back pain-radicular pain (CLBP-RP) and the adjustment between scales of neuropathic pain.

Material-methods: One hundred and one patients with CLBP-RP were included in the study. The severity of CLBP-RP was evaluated by visual analogue scale (VAS).

Relationship Between Smoking and Structural Damage, Autoimmune Antibodies, and Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the relationship between smoking and structural damage, autoimmune antibodies, and disability in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.

Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional study included 165 RA patients (36 males, 129 females; mean age 52.4±12.

Health related quality of life in Turkish polio survivors: impact of post-polio on the health related quality of life in terms of functional status, severity of pain, fatigue, and social, and emotional functioning.

Objective: To determine the impact of postpolio-syndrome on quality of life in polio survivors.

Methods: Forty polio survivors were included in the study. Twenty-one patients fulfilling the Halstead's postpolio-syndrome criteria participated in postpolio-syndrome group.

The relationship between vitamin D, vertebral deformity and quality of life in psoriatic arthritis.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between vitamin D levels, vertebral deformities, functional status, quality of life, acute phase reactants and enthesopathy in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

Patients And Methods: Fifty-two patients with PsA and 52 controls were enrolled to the study. Routine blood tests and serums 25-(OH)D3 were measured.

[Health related quality of life in Turkish polio survivors: impact of post-polio on the health related quality of life in terms of functional status, severity of pain, fatigue, and social, and emotional functioning].

Objective: To determine the impact of postpolio-syndrome on quality of life in polio survivors.

Methods: Forty polio survivors were included in the study. Twenty-one patients fulfilling the Halstead's postpolio-syndrome criteria participated in postpolio-syndrome group.

Common extensor tendon thickness measurements at the radiocapitellar region in diagnosis of lateral elbow tendinopathy.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the value of measuring common extensor tendon (CET) thickness at the radiocapitellar and capitellar regions with qualitative ultrasonographic findings in the diagnosis of lateral elbow tendinopathy.

Materials And Methods: The study included 164 lateral elbow tendinopathy patients (84 bilateral, 80 unilateral) matched by age, gender, and body mass index with 80 normal subjects. CET was examined using gray-scale and Doppler ultrasonography for tendinopathy, and tendon thickness was measured at two landmark locations: capitellar and radiocapitellar.

Disability of Arm Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire in rheumatoid arthritis patients: relationship with disease activity, HAQ, SF-36.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease that causes disability. Disability and quality of life indexes are used in the assessment and treatment of patients with RA. Disability of Arm, Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire (DASH) is a patient-based outcome measurement developed to evaluate the upper extremities.

Comparison of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Radiology Index and the modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score in Turkish patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

The objective of the present study was to compare two radiographic scoring methods (the modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score (mSASSS) and the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Radiology Index-spine (BASRI-spine)) in terms of reliability, construct validity, and feasibility in Turkish ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. The study involved seventy-four patients. The patients were evaluated with 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS) for pain, global assessment of patient, and global assessment of doctor.

Serum homocysteine level in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

In this study serum homocystein (Hcy) level was measured and its relationship with disease activity criteria and treatment protocols was investigated in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. Ninety-two AS patients and 58 healthy individuals were recruited. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and serum C-reactive protein were determined.

Association of bone mineral density and vertebral deformity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

The aim of this study was to investigate the association of vertebral deformities developed as a result of osteoporosis in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with bone mineral density (BMD) and disease activity parameters. In the study, 100 female patients with the diagnosis of RA and 56 healthy subjects were recruited. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP) and rheumatoid factor (RF) tests were performed and the number of swollen and tender joints, level of pain and health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) were recorded in order to evaluate disease activity.

The effect of outfitting style on bone mineral density.

Aim: Vitamin D deficiency is one of the most important risk factors in the development of osteoporosis. Recently, vitamin D deficiency is more frequently encountered than expected in Mediterranean countries, which are sunny most of the time. Our country is one of these sunny countries and here, we investigated the effect of outfitting style on bone mineral density (BMD) and plasma vitamin D levels in women aged between 30-40 years.