Demographic and clinical characteristics of inpatient stroke patients in Turkey.

Objectives: This study aims to assess the stroke rehabilitation facilities provided by university hospitals (UHs) and training and research hospitals (TRHs) and to evaluate the geographical disparities in stroke rehabilitation.

Patients And Methods: Between April 2013 and April 2014 a total of 1,529 stroke patients (817 males, 712 females; mean age: 61.7±14.

Ultrasonographic imaging of the effects of continuous, pulsed or sham ultrasound treatments on carpal tunnel syndrome: A randomized controlled study.

Background: Clinical and electrophysiological effects of therapeutic ultrasound (US) were researched in many studies on patients with CTS with conflicting results.

Objective: To assess the effects of continuous and pulsed US treatments by ultrasonographic imaging in addition to clinical and electrophysilogical parameters in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).

Method: Fifty-four patients with idiopathic CTS were randomly divided into three groups.

Factors affecting the results of the functional dexterity test.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Purpose Of The Study: The purpose of this study was to identify which demographic and anthropometric features affect performance (time) on the functional dexterity test (FDT).

Methods: One hundred fifty-two healthy subjects between the ages of 20 and 80 years were included in this cross-sectional study.

Comparison of effectiveness of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Kinesio Taping added to exercises in patients with myofascial pain syndrome.

Background: Although there are several studies of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and exercise in myofascial pain syndrome, there are no studies comparing the effectiveness of Kinesio Taping (KT) and TENS in myofascial pain syndrome patients.

Objective: To compare the early and late effects of TENS and KT on pain, disability and range of motion in myofascial pain syndrome patients.

Methods: Sixty-nine patients were divided into three groups randomly as TENS+Exercise, KT+Exercise and exercise groups.

Effects of weighted and un-weighted pendulum exercises on ultrasonographic acromiohumeral distance in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome.

Background: Although functional results of combined rehabilitation programs are reported, there have been no reports studying the effects of solo pendulum exercises on ultrasonographic measurements of acromiohumeral distance (AHD).

Objective: To investigate the effects of weighted and un-weighted pendulum exercises on ultrasonographic AHD and clinical symptoms in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome.

Methods: Patients with subacromial impingement syndrome were randomized to performing weighted (1.

Demographical, clinical, and psychological differences of patients who suffered hand injury accidentally and by punching glass.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare patients who were injured by punching glass with patients who were injured accidentally, according to demographical, clinical, and psychological parameters.

Methods: The Hand Injury Severity Score (HISS), the Duruöz Hand Index, the Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand scale (Q-DASH), the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), the Adult Attention-Deficiency/Hyperactivity Scale (A-ADHS), the Borderline Personality Inventory (BPI), and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were used for evaluating severity of the injury, functionality, impact of the injury on the patient, attention deficiency, patterns of borderline personality symptoms, and level of depression, respectively.

Results: Patients who were injured by punching glass were significantly younger and more likely to injure their dominant hand.

Prednisolone in complex regional pain syndrome.

Background: Although there are several studies of systemic corticosteroid therapies in various doses and various durations in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), the outcome measurement parameters are limited to the range of motion measurements, edema, and symptoms of CRPS.

Objective: To investigate the effects of prednisolone on clinical symptoms, pain, hand grip strength, range of motion, as well as on functional ability and quality of life in patients who developed CRPS after traumatic upper extremity injury.

Study Design: Retrospective evaluation.

Comparison of efficacy of neural therapy and physical therapy in chronic low back pain.

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the effects of neural therapy, and physical therapy on level of pain, disability, quality of life, and psychological status in patients with chronic low back pain. Patients admitted to the physical therapy and rehabilitation outpatient clinic with the complaint of low back pain of at least 3 months duration. Group 1 (n=27), physical therapy (PT, hotpack, ultrasound, TENS 15 sessions), group 2 (n=33), neural therapy (NT, 1:1 mixture of 20 mg/mL Lidocaine HCl (Jetokain simplex®) and saline for 5 sessions.

Psychic predictors of outcomes of physical therapy.

Background And Objectives: To investigate the relations between alexithymia, temperament features, depression and anxiety levels and level of benefit from physical therapy.

Material And Method: Fifty-eight patients in a physical therapy program were included in this study. Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire (TEMPS-A), Beck Depression Scale (BDS) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used before the treatment.

Assessment of the relationship between postural stability and sleep quality in patients with fibromyalgia.

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship of postural stability and sleep disorders in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome. Frequency of falls in the last 6 months in 48 fibromyalgia and 32 control subjects were recorded. Postural stability was assessed by static posturography device (Tetrax, Sunlight Medical Ltd.

Comparing the efficacy of mature mud pack and hot pack treatments for knee osteoarthritis.

Objective: The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of mature mud pack and hot pack therapies on patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Design: This study was designed as a prospective, randomized-controlled, and single-blinded clinical trial. Twenty-seven patients with clinical and radiologic evidence of knee osteoarthritis were randomly assigned into two groups and were treated with mature mud packs (n 15) or hot packs (n=12).

Ultrasonographic evaluation of the femoral cartilage thickness after unilateral arthroscopic partial meniscectomy.

Purpose: To assess the distal femoral cartilage after unilateral arthroscopic partial meniscectomy and to explore the relationship between cartilage thickness and various disease-/surgery-related parameters.

Methods: Eighty-nine patients (42 M, 47 F) who had undergone arthroscopic partial meniscectomy surgery were evaluated. Ultrasonographic distal femoral cartilage thicknesses were measured with a 5-13-MHz linear probe (General Electric, Logiq P5) on mid-points of the lateral condyle, intercondylar notch and medial condyle of operated and non-operated knees by a physician blinded to patients' data.

Relationship between the body image and level of pain, functional status, severity of depression, and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.

The aims were to investigate how the body image is affected in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) in comparison to healthy people, as well as to explore the relationship of the body image with the level of pain, functional status, severity of depression, and quality of life (QoL). Demographic variables, symptoms of fibromyalgia, and number of fibromyalgia tender points for 51 patients with FMS and 41 control subjects were recorded. All patients were asked to mark the level of pain on visual analogue scale (VAS).

Frequency of fibromyalgia syndrome in breast cancer patients.

Background: We aimed to determine the frequency of fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) in operated breast cancer patients and to research the relationship between FM and the severity of fatigue and quality of life in these breast cancer patients.

Methods: The demographic data of 101 operated breast cancer patients were recorded. The patients who had pain were then classified as having regional pain (RP), widespread pain without FM (WP), and widespread pain with FM (WFM).

Impact of body image on quality of life and mood in mastectomized patients and amputees in Turkey.

Background: The aim was to investigate the impact of loss of the breast on body image, as well as the relationship of the body image with quality of life and severity of the depression, comparing mastectomized patients with those with an apparent limb loss (extremity amputation).

Methods: Demographic data, and the side of the tissue/limb loss for mastectomy and transtibial amputation patients were recorded. Postoperative shoulder range of motion limitations of the operated-side in mastectomized patients, and postoperative knee flexion contracture in patients with amputation were evaluated.

Comparison of ultrasound and ketoprofen phonophoresis in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of ultrasound (US) and ketoprofen phonophoresis (PH) in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).

Design: This study was a prospective, randomised, controlled, double-blinded clinical trial with follow-up at 8 weeks. Fiftyone patients (76 median nerves) with clinical and electrophysiologic evidence of mild or moderate CTS were included in the study.

[Compliance of postmenopausal osteoporotic and osteopenic patients with calcium and vitamin D therapy].

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate compliance with Calcium + vitamin D (CaD) therapy by patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis and osteopenia.

Patients And Methods: Two hundred and thirty seven female patients who were treated for osteoporosis or osteopenia one year ago and enrolled in our clinic for management were investigated for demographic features and risk factors for osteoporosis. The patients were divided into two groups, an osteoporosis group (Opo group; n=171; mean age 65.