Publications by authors named "Sema Ertan"
Background: We evaluated the factors that affect the natural course of subacromial impingement syndrome in patients without rotator cuff tears.
Methods: In total, 63 patients were included. During the first evaluation, we recorded each patient's age, gender, profession, body mass index (BMI), hand dominance, alcohol and tobacco consumption, comorbidities, causative event of pain, presence of a functional limitation, duration of symptoms, shoulder scores (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons [ASES], Constant-Murley, and visual analog scale), history of subacromial steroid injections, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) classification.
Objective: The aim of this anatomical study was to compare the effects of the prone and lateral decubitus positions in endoscopic disc surgery on the Kambin's triangle (KT) and neural foramina zones in the lumbosacral region.
Methods: The study included 32 healthy volunteers (16 females and 16 males). Bilateral KT areas (KTA) and neural foraminal areas (FA) of the L4-L5 and L5-S1 levels in the prone and lateral decubitus positions were calculated depending on the freehand region of interest measurements on magnetic resonance images.
Objective: The aim of our study was to define and compare the mechanical properties of the vastus lateralis (VL) and vastus medialis obliquus muscles (VMO) by the way of quantitative shear-wave elastography in male and female healthy control (HC) subjects, and in female patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS).
Materials And Methods: Twenty-two healthy volunteers (11 male and 11 female) and 11 female patients with anterior knee pain were included in the study. The SWE examinations for VL and VMO were performed while the subjects were performing open kinetic chain exercises in neutral and 30° hip abduction.