Publications by authors named "Ozerbil O"
Objectives: To investigate changes in the H-reflex in patients with monoradiculopathies involving L5 or S1 levels by stimulating the sciatic nerve and recording simultaneously from the tibialis anterior (TA), peroneus longus (PL), and soleus (S) muscles.
Methods: Patients with unilateral radicular back pain with L5 or S1 root compression on MRI, participated in this cross-sectional study. The H-reflex over the TA, PL, and S muscles was simultaneously recorded by sciatic nerve stimulation.
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify whether different patient characteristics and clinical factors can be risk factors in patients with persistent postsurgical pain (PPSP) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Methods: Patients who underwent TKA due to knee osteoarthritis were divided into two groups: those who experienced no or mild PPSP (Numerical Rating Scale [NRS] ≤ 3) (group 1, n = 91) and those who experienced moderate to severe PPSP (NRS > 3) (group 2, n = 183). Information on the characteristics of patients, comorbid diseases and pre-surgical NRS scores were obtained retrospectively from hospital charts.
The majority of patients achieve substantial pain relief and improved function after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), but a proportion continues to experience life-disturbing persistent postsurgical pain (PPSP) in the months and years after surgery. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), exercise, and pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment on pain severity, neuropathic pain, knee flexion range of motion (ROM), functional status, and patient satisfaction in patients with PPSP after TKA. This is a retrospective study of prospectively collected data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study was undertaken to examine quality of life (QoL), the quality of sleep and fatigue level in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (OP) but without fractures, to assess the associations between these parameters and to compare the results with those for subjects who have osteopenia or normal bone mineral density (BMD).
Methods: In this study, 113 postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) subjects without fractures, 172 subjects with osteopenia and 102 subjects with normal BMD were included. The severity of pain, QoL, quality of sleep and fatigue were assessed using the visual analogue scale (VAS), the QoL Questionnaire of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (QUALEFFO-41), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Checklist of Individual Strength (CIS) questionnaire.
Aim: The aim of this paper was to determine whether the injection of alcohol or phenol into the tibialis posterior nerve relive the symptoms and signs of ankle plantar flexor spasticity.
Methods: Twenty patients with hemiplegic stroke were included. Patients were randomly assigned to receive a single treatment of alcohol or phenol injection to the motor branches of tibial nerve.
The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence, and the factors influencing the development, of complex regional pain syndrome-I in the upper extremity in hemiplegic patients within the first 28 weeks following a stroke. We followed up 82 stroke patients. All patients were evaluated at weeks 2, 6, 14 and 28 after suffering a stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare the effects of two antidepressants on exercise performance of the female patients with fibromyalgia.
Methods: Fifteen patients with fibromyalgia participated in this randomized, double-blind crossover study composed of two trials separated by a 2-week washout phase. The pharmacy randomly assigned patients to two groups: (a) placebo (glucose) in the morning and 25 mg amitriptyline at bedtime or (b) 20 mg fluoxetine in the morning and placebo at bedtime.
Study Design: Prospective, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, crossover clinical trial.
Objectives: To determine the efficacy of gabapentin in the treatment of neuropathic pain related to spinal cord injury.
Summary Of Background Data: Neuropathic pain is initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system.
Study Design: Prospective analysis.
Objectives: To investigate the colonization of the distal urethra and bladder during the initial stages of rehabilitation in acute spinal-cord injury (SCI) and to examine the association between bacteriuria and colonization of the distal urethra.
Setting: Selcuk University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey.
The aim of our study was to evaluate the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract side effect profile in 759 female patients that had taken alendronate (10 mg/day), for at least 6 months, for the treatment of osteoporosis, in relation to the safety of alendronate and the compliance of patients to its absorption rules. This study was a multicentered retrospective, clinical, non- placebo controlled, study of 759 female subjects carried out at 26 centres in 6 different regions of Turkey. The mean age of our patients was 62.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the properties of trigeminocervical reflex in normal subjects and in patients with primary fibromyalgia syndrome (PFS) having neck pain.
Design: Prospective testing of trigeminocervical reflex.
Setting: University hospital electromyography laboratory in Turkey.
Purpose: Our goal was to prospectively study the therapeutic efficacy of CT-marking and fluoroscopy-guided intraarticular corticosteroid instillation of inflamed sacroiliac joints in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
Material And Methods: A total of 22 fluoroscopy-guided intraarticular corticosteroid injections in the sacroiliac joints were performed in 17 patients with ankylosing spondylitis and severe low back pain. Needle puncture point, angle of intervention and distance of sacroiliac joint from the skin were determined by sacroiliac joint axial CT examination in prone position.
Study Design: A case report of rarely seen extradural brucellosis granuloma causing spinal root compression in the lumbar region.
Objective: To point out the possibility of extradural compression caused by brucellosis.
Summary Of Background Data: Many investigators have indicated that myelopathy or radiculopathy caused by irritation or compression by tiny abscess, disc herniation, or extradural granuloma may occur in brucellosis.