Effect of wearing fingers rings on the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: An exploratory study.

Objective: This study was conducted to examine the effects of an approach that wears finger rings on elderly females with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Method: The subjects were seven Japanese dementia patients living in elderly nursing homes. A single-case experimental design was adopted for the study.

Modified tension band wiring fixation for avulsion fractures of the calcaneus in osteoporotic bone: a review of three patients.

Calcaneal avulsion fractures are not uncommon, and they are probably more likely in patients with osteoporosis. Closed manipulation for this type of fracture often fails to achieve acceptable reduction, and open reduction and internal fixation are usually required. However, open reduction and internal fixation with either a lag screw or Steinmann pins do not provide satisfactory fixation in patients with diabetes and elderly patients because of the presence of porotic bone.

Ankle valgus and subtalar varus in treated clubfoot.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study was to clarify whether residual subtalar varus in treated clubfoot affects the configuration of the ankle joint in the coronal plane. Radiographic characteristics of the ankle and subtalar joint in congenital clubfoot, after a minimum of 10 years of treatment, were analyzed and presented. Weight-bearing radiographs of the ankles and feet, as well as computerized tomographic images of the hindfoot, were obtained for 30 patients (41 feet), at a mean of 15.

Diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis in the metatarsophalangeal joint of the hallux: a case report.

Unlabelled: A 60-year-old woman presented to our institution with a 2-month history of swelling and unrelieved pain on walking, localized to the right hallux. Magnetic resonance image scans revealed a multinodular soft tissue mass with low signal intensity on both T1- and T2-weighted images. Microscopic examination of a specimen procured using fine-needle biopsy revealed multinucleated giant cells, hemosiderin deposition, and foaming histiocytes, indicative of pigmented villonodular synovitis.

Septic arthritis of the atlantoaxial joint: case report.

Bacterial epidural abscess formation of cervical spine was rarely seen and all these cases were associated with osteomyelitis of the odontoid process. To the author's knowledge, only 1 case of septic arthritis of the C1-C2 lateral facet joint has been reported in the English literature. A 76-year-old woman presented with progressive neck pain and stiffness in the left side of her neck with fever.

Symptomatic anomalous insertion of the medial meniscus.

We report a case of a young athlete with a symptomatic anomaly of the medial meniscus. An anomalous portion in conjunction with the anterior horn of the medial meniscus extended to the intercondylar notch of the femur through the surface of the anterior cruciate ligament. This anomalous band was arthroscopically resected and the symptoms completely disappeared.

Coalition of bilateral first cuneometatarsal joints: a case report.

The most common types of tarsal coalition are talocalcaneal and calcaneonavicular coalition. This report presents a case of a patient with middle foot pain who was diagnosed as having first cuneometatarsal coalition.

Pseudogout attack of the lumbar facet joint: a case report.

Study Design: A case of acute low back pain caused by pseudogout attack of the lumbar facet joint is reported.

Objective: To report a new cause of acute low back pain previously unreported in the literature.

Summary Of Background Data: There have been some reports of lumbar spinal stenosis caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition.