Does plantar lipoatrophy affect dynamic balance in HIV infected persons?

Background: Chronic inflammation in HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy have been shown to cause balance disorders due to neuromusculoskeletal damage, sensorimotor deficits, failure of foot mechanoreceptors and/or plantar lipoatrophy. However, despite evidence of plantar lipoatrophy in HIV patients, there is a dearth of information on how this relates to walking balance. This study sought to investigate how plantar fat thickness affects dynamic balance in HIV infected persons.

Correlation between Foot Arch Index and the Intensity of Foot, Knee, and Lower Back Pain among Pregnant Women in a South-Eastern Nigerian Community.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the arch height index of pregnant women and its correlation with foot pain, anterior knee pain, and lower back pain.

Subjects And Methods: Two hundred and fifteen consenting pregnant women participated in this cross-sectional study. The arch height index was assessed from their foot prints, while pain intensity was rated on a numerical rating scale.

Background music in the dissection laboratory: impact on stress associated with the dissection experience.

Notable challenges, such as mental distress, boredom, negative moods, and attitudes, have been associated with learning in the cadaver dissection laboratory (CDL). The ability of background music (BM) to enhance the cognitive abilities of students is well documented. The present study was designed to investigate the impact of BM in the CDL and on stress associated with the dissection experience.

Anatomy adventure: a board game for enhancing understanding of anatomy.

Certain negative factors such as fear, loss of concentration and interest in the course, lack of confidence, and undue stress have been associated with the study of anatomy. These are factors most often provoked by the unusually large curriculum, nature of the course, and the psychosocial impact of dissection. As a palliative measure, Anatomy Adventure, a board game on anatomy was designed to reduce some of these pressures, emphasize student centered and collaborative learning styles, and add fun to the process of learning while promoting understanding and retention of the subject.

The dissection room experience: A factor in the choice of organ and whole body donation--a Nigerian survey.

The psychosocial impact of human dissection on the lives of medical and health science students has been noted. To assess the impact of the dissection room experience on one's willingness to become a whole body and organ donor, the attitudes of 1,350 students and professionals from the medical, health, and non-health related disciplines to body and organ donation were studied. The participants were broken into categories according to degree of exposure to human dissection.

Dissecting the dissectors: Knowledge, attitude, and practice of body bequests by Nigerian anatomists.

Anatomy education in most African countries is limited by an insufficient number of cadavers for students to undertake dissection. This already significant shortage is exacerbated by an increasing number of medical schools and students. Virtual dissections are impractical in alleviating such a shortfall in African anatomy education, and further cadaver supply is challenged by unethical and dubious sources.

Impact of urbanization on obesity, anthropometric profile and blood pressure in the Igbos of Nigeria.

Background: Hypertension in developing setting is often attributed to westernization of life style and stresses of urbanization, some of these increases have been noted in Nigeria.

Aim: This is a study on rural-urban differences on the blood pressure, obesity and anthropometrics among a major ethnic group in Nigeria.

Patients And Method: A total of 325 men and 242 women aged 20 to 80 years, of the Igbo ethnicity were selected for this study.