Osteoporosis--comparative study between quantitative ultrasound of calcaneus and DXA.

Introduction: Osteoporosis is bone disease characterized by reduced bone mass and reduction of bone tissue. Main complications of osteoporosis and major cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly population are fractures. Early diagnosis and detection of osteoporosis can prevent complications of osteoporosis in terms of fractures.

Therapeutic ultrasound and pain in degenerative diseases of musculoskeletal system.

Introduction: Therapeutic ultrasound is a physical modality which is constantly expanding range of indications. Analgesic effect of ultrasound is still under discussion. Regardless the extensive application of pulsed ultrasound of low intensity, continuous ultrasound has a better analgesis effect, which is explained by its mechanism of action.

[Spinal cord injury and chronic pain].

Unlabelled: Prevalence of chronic pain which develops after spinal cord injury (SCI) varies, but in average is 65%. There are many questionnaires and scales for characterisation and classification of chronic SCI pain. One of them is LANSS (Leeds Assesment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs) scale for differentiation of neuropathic pain.

[Osteoporosis associated with spinal cord lesion].

One of the complications caused by spinal lesion is osteoporosis which development is induced by lesion itself, and its mechanism is not explained enough. Risk factor of this kind of osteoporosis is fracture which management is difficult and is cause of further complications which aggravate already damaged quality of life of patients with spinal cord injury, and demand additional health insurance expenses. Importance of prevention and treatment of spinal cord injury induced osteoporosis is enlightened by case report.

[Heterotopic ossifications in paraplegics].

Periarticular ossifications in paraplegics most frequently occur around the hip. Typically, the newly formed bone limits foremost flexion. The ossification takes place in the connective tissues of the muscle; its etiology and pathogenesis remain to be elucidated.

[Kinezitherapy--fatigue or function].

Kinesitherapy (KT) is field of rehabilitation that uses the movement in order to cure patient. Knowledge about movement, condition and method of act of movement determine the final effect of this kind of treatment. Nevertheless, the role of patient is active and the positive effect can be achieved only if patient understand his role in process of therapy.

[Epidemiological characteristics of low back pain in selected sample of rehabilitation centre "Reumal" in Fojnica].

Low back pain, with or without propagation to lower extremities, still remains challenge not only for therapy but as diagnostic entity as well. This is the reason why literature is regularly refreshed with new epidemiological studies of low back pain. Six years retrospective study included 55.

[Hereditary ataxia and sensory-motor neuropathy].

The authors presented this case because of the determined characteristics in the clinical picture and electrophysiologic finding which refer to spinocerebral degeneration and neuropathia of the hereditary type, and give the possibility of the classification into two nosologic entities. One is Roussey Levy's syndrome, what is the advisable diagnosis of our patient, and another Freidreich's ataxia. Regardless to the impossibility of the establishing of diagnosis by means the specific enzimatic and genetic tests, the authors on the basis of the clinical picture, electromioncurographic findings and data from the literature of the diagnostic ally decided for Freidreich's ataxya.