Anthropometric and quantitative EMG status of femoral quadriceps before and after conventional kinesitherapy with and without magnetotherapy.

The frequency of femoral quadriceps muscle hypotrophy has become a significant therapeutic problem. Efforts are being made to improve the standard scheme of kinesitherapeutic treatment by using additional more effective therapeutic methods. Beside kinesitherapy, the authors have used magnetotherapy in 30 of the 60 patients.

[The value of kinematic data on the lumbosacral spine in differentiating between 4 levels of classification of the lumbosacral syndrome].

Dynamic capacity of the spine was measured on the basis of electrokinesiological findings (EK) with the purpose of finding out how the clinical classification factors of the lumbosacral spine (LS) affect the kinematic indicators. The EK scan contains quantified kinematic and myoelectrical data on the LS spine recorded during motion of the body in the sagittal plane. A total number of 110 patients with low back pain and/or ischialgia of degenerative etiology were examined and compared with 42 healthy controls.

[Diagnostic methods of detection of early degenerative changes in the lumbo-coccygeal triangle in relation to the use of prostheses].

In the evaluation of early degenerative changes of lumbocoxal triangle, that is of sacroiliac joints with the patients with above knee amputations, two diagnostic methods were used: X-ray method and scintigraphic method. X-ray method: pictures of sacroiliac joints according to Bársony as morphologic method show first degenerative changes in the period of six to twelve months after amputation. Scintigraphy of sacroiliac joints and the determination of s.

Ultrasonographic guidance of needle placement for shoulder arthrography.

We describe a technique using high resolution ultrasonography for needle placement for shoulder arthrography employing the posterior approach, which to our knowledge has not been reported previously. Twenty-four patients with clinical suspicion of rotator cuff lesion underwent shoulder arthrography under sonographic control. Patients ranged in age from 26 to 72 years (mean, 57 years).

Electrokinesiologic testing of walking in patients with spastic cerebral palsy.

Assessment of walking ability of patients with spastic cerebral palsy has long been a problem. In an attempt to obtain more precise and objective findings, we used the Polgon goniometry method. The study involved testing the gait of 36 spastic patients.

[Diagnostic ultrasound in orthopedics].

Diagnostic ultrasound of the locomotor system is indispensable in modern orthopedic diagnostic practice. Due to its harmlessness, spatial display and identification of all structures, diagnostic ultrasound has significantly improved diagnostic procedures and has become a method of choice in a number of pathologic processes. Ultrasound enables visualization of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscles, tendons, hematomas, abscesses, cysts, bursae of joints, to a certain extent even bones, and the processes taking place in them and how they are related to the surrounding structures.

[Autologous blood transfusion in orthopedic surgery patients].

During a 16-month period, blood for autologous transfusion treatment was taken in 186/788 (23.6%) orthopedic patients. Vasovagal reactions during blood withdrawal were observed in 8.

Congenital dislocation of the knee.

Congenital dislocations of the knee (CDK) are rare, occurring 40-80 times more rarely than congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH). In a multicentric study of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society, 56 cases of CDK were found in 46 babies. Many other malformations associated with CDK were noticed, and muscular abnormality was always found at the knee.

The Pavlik harness in the treatment of congenital dislocating hip: report on a multicenter study of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society.

The results of functional treatment using the Pavlik harness in congenital dislocation and congenital dysplasia of the hip in children aged less than 11 months were examined by an EPOS study group. This study was conducted on 3,611 hips in 2,636 patients for a period of 1-9 years after treatment. The reduction rate was 92% in grade Tonnis 2 and 3; the healing rate was 80%.