Disbalance and fatigue of the spinal extensors as one of the causes of the overload disease of the lumbar spine.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to find out whether among young active people - the future healthcare professionals - there is a risk of developing lumbar spine overload disease depending on the occurrence of the disbalance of paravertebral muscles and to assess the fatigue of the examined muscles depending on the body position during the work.

Methods: The study involved 50 randomly selected students of physiotherapy and emergency medical services of a mean age of 21 years. The surface electromyography (sEMG) was used to measure the activity level of spinal extensors of the cervical and lumbar spine.

Age and Sex Are Strongly Correlated to the Rate and Type of Mountain Injuries Requiring Search and Rescue Missions.

Introduction: Because of the growing popularity of mountain tourism, the number of injuries related to mountain activities has increased rapidly. The regional volunteer search and rescue team (Tatra mountain rescue team [MRT], Poland) anticipates future increases in injuries and accidents.

Methods: An analysis was performed on Tatra MRT incident reports for the years 2012 through 2013.

[The causes of falls and injuries after falls in women over the age of 50 living alone in Krakow].

Introduction: Falls are one of the most devastating health problems of elderly people. The identification of causes of falls helps to establish proper prevention strategies.

Material And Method: The study was based on a group of community-dwelling, independent women aged over 50 years.

[Effect in vitro of albendazole on the kinetics of cytosolic glutathione transferase from the rat liver].

Introduction: Since the idea of multifunctional mode of action of anthelmintics is considered and in experimental trichinellosis in vivo albendazole seems to act as an allosteric activator of cytosolic GST from mice muscles, in this study a termosensitivity after in vitro incubation with albendazole of purified commercial cytosolic glutathione transferase (GST) from the rat liver was investigated.

Methods: Two extremal temperatures: -80 degrees C and +30 degrees C were used to destroy the dimer in quaternary structure of this enzyme.

Results: In control preparations both extremal temperatures destroy this structure, so the Michaelis-Menten kinetic curves of substrate saturation show the typical hyperbolic shape.

Evaluation of effects of albendazole on the kinetics of cytosolic glutathione transferase in skeletal muscles during experimental trichinellosis in mice.

In this study, the effect of trichinellosis as well as the effect of albendazole treatment on the kinetics of substrate saturation of cytosolic glutathione transferase (GST) in the skeletal muscles from infected mice was examined because the idea of multifunctional mode of action of anthelmintic drugs was considered. Our results pointed out to the influence of trichinellosis and albendazole treatment on the quaternary structure of GST in mouse muscles. A double reciprocal plot of GST saturation in control mice was biphasic with apparent low and high K (m) values equal to 0.