Validity and reliability of Thai version of the International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Form.

Background: Self-administered questionnaires have become an important aspect for clinical outcome assessment of knee-related surgery. The International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) Subjective Knee Form is a knee-specific questionnaire that is widely used and translated to many languages. The purposes of the present study were: (1) to translate the questionnaire into Thai; and (2) to assess the validity and reliability of the Thai version of the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) Subjective Knee Form.

Variations in abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons in the Quervain syndrome: a surgical and anatomical study.

Eighty-two wrists of Thai cadavers and the wrists of 66 patients with de Quervain syndrome were studied, and the variation in the number of tendons and the fibro-osseous tunnel in the first extensor compartment were recorded. The abductor pollicis longus had more than one tendon in 73 of the cadavers (89%) and in 32 of the patients (49%) (p <0.001).

Difference in isokinetic strength of the muscles around dominant and nondominant shoulders.

Background: Muscle training usually plays an important role in the treatment of shoulder disorders. Clinicians traditionally predict the pre-injury strength of an injured shoulder by using the contralateral uninjured side as the baseline data.

Objective: The primary purpose of the present study was to determine the difference in isokinetic peak torque of dominant and nondominant shoulders.

A study of footprints in athletes and non-athletic people.

Unlabelled: Footprint analysis is a simple, cost-effective and readily available method for evaluation of flat feet, to identify a person in forensic content and for shoe manufacturing.

Objective: To examine the footprints in athletes and non-athletes and to compare their foot print measurements.

Material And Method: Four hundred and ninety-two athletes and four hundred and thirty-one non-athletes were recruited.