Hand injuries with mole gun: A hidden danger.

Background: Mole guns are handmade destructive tools used in the fight against harmful rodents in agricultural areas. Acciden-tal triggering of these tools at the wrong time can result in major hand injuries that impair hand functionality and cause permanent hand disability. This study aims to draw attention to the fact that mole gun injuries cause severe loss of hand functionality and that these tools should be considered within the scope of firearms.

Factors affecting orthosis adherence after acute traumatic hand tendon repairs: A prospective cohort study.

Introduction: Custom-made orthoses are used to prevent contractures and reinjury of tissues such as tendon rupture after traumatic tendon repairs. Despite their wide usage in hand rehabilitation, orthosis adherence is usually an overlooked problem.

Purpose Of The Study: This study aims to evaluate the possible factors affecting the orthosis adherence in patients with acute traumatic tendon repairs.

Risk factors for complex regional pain syndrome in patients with surgically treated traumatic injuries attending hand therapy.

Study Design: Prospective cohort study.

Introduction: Identification of risk factors for CRPS development in patients with surgically treated traumatic injuries attending hand therapy allows to watch at-risk patients more closely for early diagnosis and to take precautionary measures as required.

Purpose Of The Study: The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk factors for the development of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) after surgical treatment of traumatic hand injuries.

Effects of hyperthyroidism on hand grip strength and function.

Hyperthyroidism is a pathologic condition in which the body is exposed to excessive amounts of circulating thyroid hormones. Skeletal muscle is one of the major target organs of thyroid hormones. We evaluated hand grip strength and function in patients with overt hyperthyroidism.

Effects of smartphone overuse on hand function, pinch strength, and the median nerve.

Introduction: In this study we investigated the flexor pollicis longus (FPL) tendon and median nerve in smartphone users by ultrasonography to assess the effects of smartphone addiction on the clinical and functional status of the hands.

Methods: One hundred two students were divided into 3 groups: non-users, and high or low smartphone users. Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) scores and grip and pinch strengths were recorded.

Low dose high frequency ultrasound therapy for stellate ganglion blockade in complex regional pain syndrome type I: a randomised placebo controlled trial.

Background: We aimed to determine the sympatholytic and clinical effects of low dose high frequency ultrasound (US) applied on stellate ganglion in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) type I patients.

Material And Method: Fourty-five patients with CRPS type I were randomly allocated into three groups. Pharmacological treatment, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), contrast bath and exercise were applied to all groups for 20 sessions.

Do the self-concept and quality of life decrease in CP patients? Focussing on the predictors of self-concept and quality of life.

Purpose: To find out if the quality of life (QOL) and self-concept of the children with cerebral palsy (CP) was different from that of children without disability, to investigate predictive variables that could affect self-concept and QOL.

Methods: A total of 40 children with CP and 46 age-matched peers were included. The baseline characteristics including sex, type of CP, the level of disability according to Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) were recorded.

Effects of body weight supported treadmill training on cardiac and pulmonary functions in the patients with incomplete spinal cord injury.

We aimed to investigate the effects of body weight supported treadmill training (BWSTT) on cardio-pulmonary functions and on depression in subjects with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Eight subjects (2 female, 6 male) with incomplete SCI participated in this study. Heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and resting pulmonary function parameters were obtained from each subject at baseline and after BWSTT.

[The role of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies in serologic diagnosis and evaluation of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis].

Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are used as highly specific and sensitive markers in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in recent years. The aim of this prospective and cross-sectional study was to measure the levels of anti-CCP and rheumatoid factor (RF) in patients with RA and osteoarthritis, and healthy volunteers to evaluate the specificity and possible diagnostic value of anti-CCP and RF, as well as their correlations with parameters of disease activity. Thirty-four patients with RA (mean age: 53.

The effect of sequel symptoms and signs of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type 1 on upper extremity disability and quality of life.

Although properly treated, patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type 1 (CRPS type 1) of upper limb may continue to have sequel signs and symptoms of the disease in long-term. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect of the sequel findings of CRPS type 1 on upper limb disability and quality of life. Thirty patients with CRPS type 1 of the upper extremity were re-evaluated for the sequel sign and symptoms of CRPS type 1 after 18 months (8-60 months).

The effects of the diabetes related soft tissue hand lesions and the reduced hand strength on functional disability of hand in type 2 diabetic patients.

Objectives: The aim of the present study is to examine the effects of diabetes related soft tissue hand lesions such as Dupuytren's disease, trigger finger and limited joint mobility (LJM) and the reduced hand strength on the functional disability of the hand in type 2 diabetic patients.

Methods: Forty-four type 2 diabetic patients and 60 age and sex matched controls were included in the study. Subjects were examined for the presence of Dupuytren's disease, trigger finger and LJM.

Diameter of the infrarenal abdominal aorta in children with cerebral palsy.

The diameters of the infrarenal abdominal aorta by ultrasonography have not yet been reported in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Because the demand for the surgical applications of the abdominal aorta probably increases in the CP population owing to their prolonged life-span, we planned a study to assess the diameter of the infrarenal abdominal aorta by ultrasonography in children with CP and to compare them with those of healthy subjects. The study comprised 60 children with CP and 95 age- and sex-matched healthy children.

What do men who are at risk of osteoporosis know about osteoporosis in developing countries? A pilot study in Isparta, Turkey.

The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, health beliefs and the knowledge sources of osteoporosis in Turkish males who are at risk of secondary causes of osteoporosis. One hundred and sixty men who had one of the systemic diseases or drugs which negatively affects bone metabolism were included in the study. Patients were asked to fill in a self-administered questionnaire which was modified from a validated questionnaire for Turkish female patients with osteoporosis.

The auditory event related potentials in episodic and chronic pain sufferers.

To examine the cognitive processing differences in chronic and episodic pain sufferers, auditory event-related potentials (P300 or P3) were recorded in two consecutive trials from 23 chronic lower back pain patients, 22 episodic tension-type headache sufferers, and from 23 age- and sex-matched healthy persons. P3 latency and amplitude showed no difference between groups at first trial. Considering P3 latency habituation, healthy controls and episodic tension-type headache sufferers showed a significant change of P3 latency whereas lower back pain sufferers failed.