Skeletal and functional status in patients with long-standing stroke.

Introduction: Skeletal and functional status can be affected after stroke, mainly due to subjects' immobilisation. The aim of our study was to assess the functional and bone status in post-stroke patients with hemiplegia. Quantitative ultrasound at hand phalanges and bone mineral density (BMD) in the wrist and the calcaneal bone were compared between the paralysed and the non-paralysed side.

Epidemiology of spinal injuries in Lubuskie Province.

Background: Spinal injuries represent a serious medical and social problem for society on all continents. The sufferers are predominantly young, healthy and vocationally active people, which entails considerable social and economic consequences. Epidemiologic research enables assessment of the consequences, determination of risk groups and factors and, therefore, identification of preventive and therapeutic tasks for local governments and health care systems.

Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis: common risk factors or one condition predisposing to the other?

Both Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis occur mainly in persons aged over 60. Both diseases are often seen to co-occur in clinical practice, yet very few investigators have addressed this problem. They have demonstrated that several different clinical factors can lead to a higher incidence of osteoporosis in persons with Alzheimer's disease.

[Supracondylar fracture of the humerus in children with concomitant fracture of the ipsilateral forearm].

The mode of treatment used in 6 cases of combined supracondylar fracture of the humerus and ipsilateral forearm fracture is presented. Results were rated good, fair and poor according to both functional and radiological assessments. Three cases were good and 3 fair.