Prevention and management of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in persons with a spinal cord injury or disorder: A systematic scoping review.

The primary objective was to review the literature regarding methodologies to assess fracture risk, to prevent and treat osteoporosis and to manage osteoporotic fractures in SCI/D. Scoping review. Human adult subjects with a SCI/D.

A historical study of appendicular fractures in veterans with traumatic chronic spinal cord injury: 2002-2007.

Objective: Describe the incidence and distribution of appendicular fractures in a cohort of veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Retrospective, observational study of fractures in veterans with a chronic traumatic SCI.

Setting: The Veterans Health Administration (VA) healthcare system.

Utility of electrodiagnostic testing in evaluating patients with lumbosacral radiculopathy: An evidence-based review.

This is an evidence-based review of electrodiagnostic (EDX) testing of patients with suspected lumbosacral radiculopathy to determine its utility in diagnosis and prognosis. Literature searches were performed to identify articles applying EDX techniques to patients with suspected lumbosacral radiculopathy. From the 355 articles initially discovered, 119 articles describing nerve conduction studies, electromyography (EMG), or evoked potentials in adequate detail were reviewed further.

Pudendal nerve entrapment as source of intractable perineal pain.

Perineal pain caused by pudendal nerve entrapment is a rarely reported entity, with only a handful of cases in the modern literature. A 25-yr-old male medical student had refractory unilateral orchialgia for 32 mo and concomitant proctalgia for 14 mo. Pain was positional in nature, exacerbated by sitting and partially relieved when standing or recumbent.