THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION PROGRAMME FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC SPINAL PAIN: OUTCOMES WITH WORK STATUS AS THE PRIMARY FOCUS.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of the multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation programme for chronic spinal patients as to work status, physical functioning, pain intensity, health-related quality of life and the psychosocial domain.

Design: This is a retrospective, single-centre, observational cohort study.

Subjects/patients: A total of 209 subjects (mean age 41.

Rayfiles including spectral and colorimetric information.

To obtain realistic results in lighting simulation software, realistic models of light sources are needed. A near-field model of a light source is accurate, and can be obtained by a near-field goniophotometer. This type of goniophotometer is conventionally equipped with a V(λ)-filter.

Septic arthritis of a lumbar facet joint caused by Staphylococcus aureus.

Study Design: Case report of a 35-year-old woman with septic arthritis of a lumbar facet joint.

Objectives: To report a rare case of severe low back pain and the specific differential diagnostic problems.

Summary Of Background Data: Differential diagnosis between spondylodiscitis and facet joint septic arthritis on a clinical basis is very difficult.

Effect of the sex-linked dwarf gene on circulating levels of 17 beta-estradiol, progesterone and luteinising hormone in the laying hen.

1. The sex-linked dwarf gene did not appear to affect the LH, progesterone (P4) and oestradiol 17-beta (E2) levels around the onset of lay in a sample of White Leghorn hens. 2.

Serial maternal plasma concentrations of progesterone and estradiol during the morning, the afternoon and at night throughout normal pregnancy in the cynomolgus macaque.

Total progesterone (P4) and estradiol (E2) were determined in plasma from 10 pregnant cynomolgus macaques, Macaca fascicularis. A non-invasive blood collection technique utilizing a squeeze-cage and a catheter fixed momentarily in the brachial or saphenous vein allowed a 10-min serial blood sampling (SBS) for 3 h in the morning, the afternoon or at night at 30, 50, 70, 90, 110, 130, 150 and 165 days of pregnancy and on the day after delivery, without modifying gestation length or damaging fetal health. During an SBS session, extensive fluctuations of high P4 levels (greater than 10 ng/ml) were sometimes observed and infrequent pulses might occur, while E2 levels fluctuated only slightly but increased progressively.