Are exercise interventions beneficial for people with hip and knee osteoarthritis? - A Cochrane Review summary with commentary.

The aim of this commentary is to discuss in a rehabilitation perspective the recently published Cochrane Review "Exercise interventions and patient beliefs for people with hip, knee or hip and knee osteoarthritis: a mixed methods review" by Hurley M. et al., 2018,1 under the direct supervision of Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group.

Rehabilitation of Patients with Hip Joint Arthroplasty (Late Post-surgery Period - Hospital Rehabilitation).

Background: Hip joint replacement (endoprosthesis, alloplasty) has become one of the most frequent surgery interventions of the 20th century.

Aim: To conduct rehabilitation therapy in the late post-surgery period of hospital rehabilitation (45 days after surgery), to track patients' progress and measure the results.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and fifty-two patients with hip joint endoprosthesis were included in the study.

Effectiveness of High Intensity Laser Therapy for Reduction of Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis.

. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. It is the main cause of chronic musculoskeletal pain and disability among the elderly population.

Radial shock wave therapy for plantar fasciitis: a one year follow-up study.

Unlabelled: The vast majority of published papers on the efficacy of extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) have come up with rather controversial results in patients with plantar fasciitis. The AIM of the present study was to investigate the effect of radial shock wave therapy in patients with chronic proximal plantar fasciitis.

Material And Methods: Twenty-one patients were included in the study (mean age 51.

Effect of radial shock wave therapy on muscle spasticity in children with cerebral palsy.

Extracorporeal shock wave therapy is a treatment of choice in patients with musculoskeletal disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of radial shock wave therapy (RSWT) on muscle spasticity of plantar flexor muscles in children with cerebral palsy. This was an open, controlled, observational study with one placebo treatment session, followed 4 weeks later by one active treatment session.

Exercise training modes in rehabilitation of patients with chronic heart failure.

Modern cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in chronic heart failure (CHF) is a multidisciplinary process with the patient being the centre of the focus. Various CR models (inpatient, outpatient and home based) have been used the last two decades in the pursuit of higher effectiveness and better results. The aim of this review is to present different exercise training modes applied in rehabilitating patients with CHF and to highlight their clinical value, advantages and disadvantages and practical implication.

Radial shock wave therapy in patients with lateral epicondylitis.

Introduction: Lateral epicondylitis, or "tennis elbow", is a relatively common disorder. Various therapeutic modalities have been tried in an attempt to manage the disorder but neither the conservative methods nor the surgical options have proved to be beneficial so far. During the past decade in the USA and European countries and the past several years in Bulgaria, the shock wave therapy (focused and radial) has been introduced as a method of choice in the treatment of chronic tendynopathies.

Fractures of the femoral neck treated with hemiarthroplasty. A comparative study.

Introduction: Hemiarthroplasty is the treatment of choice in the management of displaced intracapsular fractures of the proximal femur in old patients with low functional demands.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of cementless Austin-Moore and the cemented Thompson prostheses used in the treatment of displaced intracapsular fractures of the proximal femur.

Patients And Methods: We studied retrospectively 376 patients with fresh, displaced, nonpathological femur neck fractures.

A case of encephalomyelopolyneuropathy in vitamin B12 deficiency.

Unlabelled: A case of a 44-years-old patient with unusual clinical presentation of encephalomyelopolyneuropathy in vitamin B12 deficiency is presented. The disease manifested itself with gastrointestinal bleeding, which necessitated emergency hospitalisation in surgical clinic. Clinical examinations revealed atrophic gastritis, pernicious anemia, neurological and mental complications.

Diagnostic value of the muscle fiber conduction velocity for evaluation of muscle hypotrophy.

Aim: To find an objective method of evaluation of the thigh muscle hypothrophy in gonarthrosis.

Material And Methods: The subjects of the study were 24 patients with gonarthrosis (mean age 58.4 +/- 2.

The holistic approach to rehabilitation of patients after total hip joint replacement.

Aim: The objective of the present study was to present the principles of a program used jointly by the Clinic of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and the Clinic of Physical Medicine and Early Rehabilitation at St. George University Hospital, Plovdiv for rehabilitation of patients with total hip replacement surgery.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed 486 cases of endoprostheses implanted by two surgical teams in the Clinic of Orthopaedics and Traumatology over a period of 6 years.