[Functional impairment in patients with rheumatoid spondylitis of the pelvis].

Aim: To assess functional impairment in patients with rheumatoid pelvispondylite.

Methods: cross-sectional study conducted on patients with rheumatoid pelvispondylite. Data are collected in a form specifying the epidemiological and demographic data, disease activity by Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), metrological static and dynamic examination.

[Neurogenic bladder in diabetes mellitus].

Background: Diabetic bladder dysfunction is among the most common complications of diabetes mellitus. It is principally caused by autonomic neuropathy defining diabetic cystopathy.

Aim: characterize the bladder dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus.

[Necessity of physical activities restriction after lumbar diskectomy].

Background: Necessity of physical activities restriction after lumbar discectomy have been described in the literature.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine if early rehabilitation could favorably influence the prognosis of military patients who had undergone lumbar disk surgery.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study involving patients who have had lumbar disk surgery, and had undergone physical rehabilitation program.

Total knee arthroplasty in a spinal cord-injured patient: a case report.

Patients with spinal cord injuries are prone to knee hydrarthrosis (also known as "water on the knee"), which can cause pain, functional impairment and the restriction of social activities. Total knee arthroplasty is a potentially appropriate treatment. Here, we report on a patient presenting partial T12 AIS grade C paraplegia who was able to walk with two forearm crutches, an ankle-foot orthosis on the right leg and a knee-ankle-foot orthosis on the left leg.

[Neurogenic urinary bladder in patients with spinal cord injury. Protocol of surveillance and management].

Background: Bladder dysfunction is constant in patients with spinal cord injury and this whatever is the injury level. They are characterized by a variable profile and changing in the course of the years. They constitute not only, an important cause of morbidity in this population but also mortality.