Position paper on olfactory dysfunction: 2023.

Background: Since publication of the original Position Paper on Olfactory Dysfunction in 2017 (PPOD-17), the personal and societal burden of olfactory disorders has come sharply into focus through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinicians, scientists and the public are now more aware of the importance of olfaction, and the impact of its dysfunction on quality of life, nutrition, social relationships and mental health. Accordingly, new basic, translational and clinical research has resulted in significant progress since the PPOD-17.

[Functional impairment in patients with rheumatoid spondylitis of the pelvis].

Aim: To assess functional impairment in patients with rheumatoid pelvispondylite.

Methods: cross-sectional study conducted on patients with rheumatoid pelvispondylite. Data are collected in a form specifying the epidemiological and demographic data, disease activity by Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), metrological static and dynamic examination.

[Neurogenic bladder in diabetes mellitus].

Background: Diabetic bladder dysfunction is among the most common complications of diabetes mellitus. It is principally caused by autonomic neuropathy defining diabetic cystopathy.

Aim: characterize the bladder dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus.

[Necessity of physical activities restriction after lumbar diskectomy].

Background: Necessity of physical activities restriction after lumbar discectomy have been described in the literature.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine if early rehabilitation could favorably influence the prognosis of military patients who had undergone lumbar disk surgery.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study involving patients who have had lumbar disk surgery, and had undergone physical rehabilitation program.

[Neurogenic urinary bladder in patients with spinal cord injury. Protocol of surveillance and management].

Background: Bladder dysfunction is constant in patients with spinal cord injury and this whatever is the injury level. They are characterized by a variable profile and changing in the course of the years. They constitute not only, an important cause of morbidity in this population but also mortality.

[The contribution of home based exercise programme in case of osteoarthritis of the knee].

Background: Knee Osteoarthritis is the most frequent articular disease. It may cause disability and handicap.

Aim Of The Study: to assess the effect of a home based exercice programme in a Tunisian population having knee osteoarthritis, associated with medical treatment and education.

[Study of the postural profile and spinal static for menopausal-women with chronic low back pain].

Objectives: To study postural and spinal static modifications associated with chronic low back pain in menopausal women.

Methods: Clinical appreciation of static spinal profile in sagittal plane; postural evaluation on the Balance Master Neurocom force platform by the modified clinical test for the sensory interaction on balance (modified CTSIB test); Radiological evaluation of spinal and pelvic parameters as well as the sagittal profile according to the Roussouly classification.

Results: Spinal curves clinical measurement and the sway velocity of the pressure center on the Balance Master Neurocom do not show significant difference between the two groups.

[Place of orthotic devices in the neuromuscular diseases].

Unlabelled: INTRODUCTION-AIM: If neuromuscular diseases differ by the age of the beginning, the mechanism, the topography and the evolution, they have in common to pull a deficit of the muscular force which establishes the main consequence of these diseases. The orthopedic devices is an essential constituent of the coverage. The purpose is to warn or to correct orthopaedic deformations, to protect, to facilitate or to supply a function, to assure a better comfort and to get for the patient the best quality of life.

[Capsular distension and physical therapy in treatment of adhesive capsulitis].

Objective: to evaluate the efficacy of capsular distension combined with intraarticular glucocorticoid injections and immediate physical therapy in the treatment of adhesive capsulitis.

Method: a prospective open study of patients with adhesive capsulitis. Clinical and radiological criteria was used for diagnosis.

[Role of the Neurocom Balance Master in assessment of gait problems and risk of falling in elderly people].

Introduction: Falls in elderly people is currently a health service problem because of the multiple consequences. Numerous teams have been interested in predicting the risk of falling with clinical and instrumental tests. Our study investigated instrumental evaluation by use of the Neurocom Balance Master in the global assessment of gait problems and risk of falling in elderly people.

[Conservative management of full-thickness rotator cuff tears. A prospective study of 24 patients].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of conservative treatment of full-thickness rotator cuff tears.

Method: A prospective open study of patients with full-thickness rotator cuff tears. The diagnosis was confirmed by ultrasonography examination.