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Fulltext Bertolotti's syndrome: A commonly missed cause of back pain in young patients

Manmohan S, Dzulkarnain A, Nor Azlin ZA, Fazir M

Malays Fam Physician, 2015;10(2):55-8.
PMID: 27099663

Bertolotti's syndrome must be considered as a differential diagnosis for lower back pain in young people. Treatment, whether conservative or operative, is still debatable. In this paper, we report a case of a 20-year-old girl presenting with lower back pain for 8 years. We administered injection with local anaesthetic and steroid injections within the pseudo-articulation; however, the pain was relieved for 3 weeks. Surgical excision of the pseudo-articulation successfully treated her back pain and the sciatica.
Fulltext Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report

Manmohan S, Nor Azlin ZA, Fazir M, Dzulkarnain A, Goh JH

Malays Orthop J, 2015 Mar;9(1):32-34.
PMID: 28435594 MyJurnal DOI: 10.5704/MOJ.1503.004

Instances of neurological recovery after early decompression of the spine in non-traumatic spinal cord compression are well documented. We present a patient with paraplegia of 11 months' duration due to atypical spinal tuberculosis who showed complete neurological recovery in three months.
Fulltext Physical function assessment of older adults with lower body fractures at 3 months post-discharge from hospital

Ibrahim N', Sharkawi Ahmad M, Zulfarina MS, Zaris SNASM, Nor Azlin ZA, Naina Mohamed I, et al.

Ther Clin Risk Manag, 2019;15:201-210.
PMID: 30774356 DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S189748

Background and purpose: Physical function assessment can be performed to assess functional mobility among older adults, especially after a traumatic incident such as lower body fracture (LBF). The objective of this study was to evaluate physical function of older patients with LBF after 3 months of discharge from the hospital.
Patients and methods: A total of 89 patients were followed up at the discharge phase. Four independent variables were tested: age, sex, type of fracture, and use of a walking aid before fracture. Mobility and strength were assessed with the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test and hand-grip strength (HGS) test, respectively.
Results: The majority of the patients were ≥65 years old (64%), female (61.8%), of Chinese ethnicity (50.6%), and had a hip fracture (51.7%). The mean time for TUG test was 26.11 seconds, while mean HGS was 19.02 kg. We found significant differences in TUG test scores with respect to all independent variables tested: age (P=0.026), sex (P=0.011), fracture type (P<0.001), and use of a walking aid before fracture (P=0.004). Significant differences were also detected in HGS test scores with respect to all independent variables tested: age (P<0.001), sex (P<0.001), fracture type (P<0.001), and use of a walking aid before fracture (P=0.035).
Conclusion: Increasing age, female sex, having a hip fracture, and use of a walking aid before fracture predicted reduction in the physical function and strength among older adults with LBF.

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