Effectiveness of kinesiotape and sham kinesiotape application in children with cerebral palsy with dysphagia: A randomized controlled study.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the short- and long-term effects of kinesiotaping (KT) on dysphagia in children with cerebral palsy (CP).

Patients And Methods: One hundred one CP patients (59 males, 42 females; mean age: 49.3±18.

Pain types and risk factors in post-COVID-19.

Objectives: This study aims to accurately evaluate pain lasting longer than three months and falls under the category of chronic pain and to determine the risk factors to follow up and treat properly and to develop appropriate diagnostic and treatment algorithms.

Patients And Methods: Between March 2021 and December 2021, a total of 437 patients (162 males, 275 females; mean age: 44±14.6 years; range, 12 to 82 years) who were referred to the participating centers due to pain complaints and were diagnosed with post-COVID-19 condition according to the criteria defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) were included in the study.

The effectiveness of deep tissue massage on pain, trigger point, disability, range of motion and quality of life in individuals with myofascial pain syndrome.

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of deep tissue massage (DTM) on the myofascial trigger point (MTrP) number, neck range of motion (ROM), pain, disability and quality of life in patients with Myofacial pain syndrome (MPS).

Methods: The study involved patients with MPS between the ages of 20-57. The patients were randomly divided into two groups: the control group ( = 40) and the study group ( = 40).

Comparison of the Effects of Isokinetic, Isometric, and Isotonic Exercises on Knee Osteoarthritis Using Ultrasound.

Introduction: This study aims to investigate the effects of different types of exercise on pain, functional capacity, muscle strength measured by an isokinetic dynamometer, and femoral cartilage (FC) thickness measured using ultrasound in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA).

Methods: Sixty patients were randomized to isokinetic, isometric, and isotonic exercise groups, and exercise programs were completed five days a week over three weeks. The FC thickness for each knee was evaluated in medial, intercondylar, and lateral areas using ultrasound, and muscle strength was assessed by an isokinetic dynamometer.

Use of lower extremity orthoses in patients with cerebral palsy and related factors.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of using lower extremity orthosis prescribed for patients with cerebral palsy (CP) and to determine the factors associated with orthosis use.

Study Design: The study had a retrospective and descriptive design.

Methods: One hundred and twenty-nine patients with CP who were prescribed orthoses were included in this study.

The effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme on work productivity and clinical parameters in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Objective: The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme on work productivity, disease activity, functional status, quality of life, respiratory function tests (RFTs), physical capacity and depression in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients.

Method: Twenty-five patients diagnosed with AS were included in this study. The disease severity was evaluated with Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), functional status was evaluated with Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI), quality of life was evaluated with AS-Related Quality of Life Scale (ASQOL), physical capacity was evaluated with the 6-min walking test (6MWT), depression level was evaluated with Beck Depression Scale (BDS) and work productivity was evaluated with Spondyloartropathy Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI-SpA) Survey.

Efficacy of high intensity laser therapy in knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind controlled randomized study.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of high intensity laser therapy on pain, functionality, flexion range of motion (FROM), and ultrasonographic cartilage measurement in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: This study was designed as a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled study. Forty patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria were included in the study.

Neuropathic Pain and Its Relationship with Clinical Findings in Patients with Fibromyalgia.

Introduction: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a clinical condition characterised by chronic generalised body pain, fatigue and presence of tender points. In this study, we hypothesized that FMS could be a type of neuropathic pain and investigated the relationship between neuropathic pain and sleep disturbance and depression. We also investigated the association between these clinical conditions and disease severity.

Environmental characteristics of older people attending physical medicine and rehabilitation outpatient clinics.

Objective: A residential environment refers to the physical and social characteristics in a neighbourhood. The physical characteristics include interior housing qualities, exterior neighbourhood characteristics, and the accessibility of essential facilities and services outside the neighbourhood. Older adults especially may be vulnerable to the negative impacts of the residential environment.

The GUSS test as a good indicator to evaluate dysphagia in healthy older people: a multicenter reliability and validity study.

Purpose: Dysphagia is known to be a disorder of the swallowing function, and is a growing health problem in aging populations. Swallowing screening tests have mostly been studied in comorbidities such as stroke associated with old age. There is no simple, quick and easy screening test to best determine the risk of oropharyngeal dysphagia in geriatric guidelines.

Alexithymia and attention deficit and their relationship with disease severity in fibromyalgia syndrome.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of alexithymia and attention deficit and to evaluate their relationship with the severity of disease in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).

Patients And Methods: A total of 101 patients (6 males, 95 females; mean age 45.0 years; range, 33 to 56 years) who were admitted to Gaziantep University, Medical Faculty, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department between January 2013 and December 2013 and were diagnosed with FMS and 40 healthy volunteers (4 males, 36 females; mean age 41.

Comparison of education and balneotherapy efficacy in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome: A randomized, controlled clinical study.

Objectives: Fibromyalgia is a disease characterized by chronic, widespread pain. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment methods are used. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of balneotherapy on treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome, compared with education alone.

Common Mistakes in the Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) in Turkey. A Retrospective Descriptive Multicenter Study.

Background: Osteoporosis is a widespread metabolic bone disease representing a global public health problem currently affecting more than two hundred million people worldwide. The World Health Organization states that dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the best densitometric technique for assessing bone mineral density (BMD). DXA provides an accurate diagnosis of osteoporosis, a good estimation of fracture risk, and is a useful tool for monitoring patients undergoing treatment.

Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis presenting as paraplegia: a case report.

Background: Tuberculosis of the musculoskeletal system is not a common clinical condition; however, multifocal bone involvement is even rarer and difficult to recognize.

Case: In this paper, we presented a patient who developed paraplegia 15 days before his hospital admission. He was operated by neurosurgeons due to spinal mass, but postoperative examination revealed vertebral and multifocal skeletal tuberculosis.

Expert opinion and key recommendations for the physical therapy and rehabilitation of patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Aim:   Physiotherapy is an integral part of the management of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and there is a need for recommendations which focus on the rehabilitation of patients with AS. We aimed to develop recommendations for the physical therapy and rehabilitation of patients with AS based on the evidence and expertise.

Methods:   The Anatolian Group for the Assessment in Rheumatic Diseases (ANGARD) is a scientific group of Turkish academicians (physiatrists and rheumatologists) who are experts in the rehabilitation of patients with AS.

Reliability and efficacy of the new massage technique on the treatment in the patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.

We aimed to bring a more understandable and applicable technique to the literature instead of "massage therapy" in CTS. We compared our new technique with the splint wear, of which the efficacy in CTS has been proven with many studies. Eighty-four patients between 31 and 65 years of age were included in the study.

Late onset spondyloarthropathy mimicking polymyalgia rheumatica.

We report a 55-year-old woman with late onset spondyloarthropathy who had widespread body pain and pitting oedema of both ankles. She had been followed up for polymyalgia rheumatica for nearly 10 years. On laboratory examination, ESR: 62 mm/h and CRP: 16.

Severe neck and back pain in adolescence: remember osteoblastoma.

Osteoblastoma is a rare benign tumor of the bone. A 15-year-old boy presented with severe neck and back pain and was followed up for myofascial pain syndrome for 12 months. There was no neurologic deficit or scoliosis.

The relation between genitourinary prolapse and joint hypermobility in Turkish women.

Objective: In this cross-sectional study, we compared frequency of hypermobility syndrome in pelvic organ prolapse (POP) patients and normal healthy Turkish women.

Methods: Sixty-five women who had diagnosed as POP and ward to surgery and 52 healthy women with similar age group were included into this study.

Results: It was found that subjects with POP had a significantly higher prevalence of joint hypermobility (53.

Determination of basal metabolic rate and body composition with bioelectrical impedance method in children with cerebral palsy.

This study uses the bioelectrical impedance method to assess the body composition, basal metabolic rate, and some other physical properties of children with cerebral palsy. In this study, 41 children with spastic cerebral palsy were assessed, and 56 normally developed children were included as control. Parameters such as body compositions, basal metabolic rate, body resistance, liquid compartment, and capacitance of patients and control group were measured and analyzed statistically.

Assessment of paraoxonase activities in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

The objective of this study was to investigate serum paraoxonase and arylesterase activities, and lipid hydroperoxide (LOOH) and total thiol (total free sulfhydryl groups, -SH) levels along with lipid parameters in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Thirty-six patients with knee osteoarthritis and 30 healthy individuals were enrolled in the study. Serum paraoxonase and arylesterase activities were measured spectrophotometrically.

The relationship between clinical parameters and depression level in patients with myofascial pain syndrome.

Objective: Several studies and reviews have documented the high degree of comorbidity between depression and chronic pain. It was reported that chronic muscle pain is frequently accompanied by symptoms of depression. The purpose of this study was then to investigate the prevalence of major depression in chronic pain patients (CPP) with myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and to investigate the relationship between some clinical parameters and level of depression, utilizing a healthy control group without MPS.

Total oxidative/anti-oxidative status and relation to bone mineral density in osteoporosis.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the total antioxidant status (TAS), total oxidative status (TOS) and oxidative stress index (OSI) in patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis. We also investigate the relation between bone mineral density and oxidative/antioxidative parameters. Thirty-nine patients with osteoporosis and 26 healthy controls were included in the study.