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... A 48 yr old Indian Hindu married female from Malappuram, attended our OPD with the complaints of insidious onset of neck pain along with stiffness and restricted mobility of the neck, since last 9 yrs. Pain worsens at ... See full document

... Shamana drugs like Rashna Saptak is Vata Shamana (pacifying)in action and also acts as analgesic, Nimbaamritadi Erand is purgative in nature which helps in cleaning the Shrotas as mild Anulomana. Singhanadh Guggulu acts ... See full document

... Challenges from consumer groups in the 1980’s, re- sponding to both real and false claims of harm from vacci- nation, had resulted in a number of important steps to- wards ever safer vaccines and vaccination programs. In ... See full document

... The project entitled “Is the notochord cell the key to intervertebral disc homeostasis?” concerns particular as- pects of the physiology of the intervertebral disc. The project developed from the observation that certain ... See full document

... present study, BASDAI and BASFI scores were significantly and negatively correlated with all SF-36 ...current study, BASDAI was most correlated with bodily pain, which is in line with the published results ... See full document

... functional status in this case. The BASFI (Table 1) is a reliable instrument to measure patient function and can be used to identify change in patient perception of symptoma- tology. The test consists of 10 ... See full document

... involved different levels concerning diagnosis, failure of standard treatments, disease activity, monitoring and criteria for withdrawal. Patients should respond to the modified New York criteria. Standard treatment ... See full document

... practic schools and colleges would suggest that, by advancing scholastic requirements, more money could be made. The facts being quite the contrary, as we have intimated, the “school men” as a group hesitated. Some ... See full document

... Background information on muscle structure and function, including active (con- tractile), as well as passive (viscoelastic) properties of muscle will be included. The article will culmi[r] ... See full document

... strong mediator for other factors as a sort of final com- mon (psychological) pathway. More specifically, higher disease activity, being unable to satisfactorily perform so- cial roles and lower income are associated ... See full document

... (1 = much better, 2 = somewhat better, 3 = about the same, 4 = somewhat worse, 5 = much worse”) to rate the overall change. This method has the advantage of syn- thesizing information on the sensitivity and specificity ... See full document

... another study reported no correlation between vBMD measured in the forearm with peripheral QCT (pQCT) and QCT values of the lumbar spine, and pQCT revealed only a few cases of osteopenia and ...present ... See full document

... our study is that discontinuation of inflix- imab therapy seems justified, since we found that retreat- ment with infliximab was safe, resulting in a good clinical response, similar to that before ...the ... See full document

... Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis in which there is long term inflammation of the joints of the spine with various skeletal and extra skeletal ...a case of AS, which was treated for ... See full document

... cross-sectional study, 32 AS patients and 32 age- and sex- matched controls were ...Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Funcional ... See full document

... The study population of 420 patients with SpA was ran- domly chosen from a specialist rheumatology clinic regis- ter at a hospital for patients with rheumatic diseases in the southwest region of ...the ... See full document

... The study involved 60 patients, who were randomized into either the exergame group (EG) or the control group ...Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI), the Bath Ankylosing ... See full document

... APGAR meaning satisfaction with family function was evaluated by the Family APGAR Index, which was com- piled by Smilkstein, including 5 items: adaptation, partner- ship, growth, affection and resolve [19]. These five ... See full document

... A limitation of the study is the small number of pa- tients with PsA and IBD. Furthermore, we chose only VFs with a deformity >25 % and not smaller deformities, as this would have increased sensitivity but ... See full document

... losing Spondylitis Functional Index) was higher in the anxious and depressed subgroups, while measures of spinal mobility (assessed by Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index) were not associated ... See full document