CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES IN PERSONS INVOLVED IN RELATION TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Personality traits define those characteristics that we demonstrate in most contexts and are relatively stable over time. A certain personality tells us almost nothing about our abilities, but it can tell us a lot about the environment in which we feel best. And because there are certain contexts in which we are at ease, it is very likely that our performance will be a good one there

Fiziologia şi metabolismul oaselor maxilare (vezi reabilitarea implanto-protetică)

Implanturile endoosoase reprezintă un tratament de elecţie, pentru rezolvarea unei largi varietăţi de probleme clinice. Deşi s-au făcut progrese privind studiul calitativ şi cantitativ al diferitelor sisteme implantare de pe piaţă, precum şi al aplicaţiilor clinice ale acestora, ele rămân totuşi limitate. Este esenţial pentru fiecare clinician să cunoască conceptele moderne, privind fiziologia, metabolismul şi biomecanica osoasă. Acest aspect este de cele mai multe ori singurul obiectiv, pentru a crea şi a implementa un plan de tratament inovativ

Time-Efficacy in SMA Type 1 and 2 Cases Treated with Nusinersen

Spinal muscular atrophy is a neuromuscular degenerative disorder characterized by progressive apoptosis of motor neurons, with severe weakness and bulbar dysfunction. The aim of the study was to analyze the correlations between the moment of initiation of treatment (nusinersen) and clinical evolution, and also the change of electrophysiological parameters and motor scales, fol-lowed up for 2 years. This study was carried out between 2018 and 2022 on 60 SMA children (29 girls, 31 boys), (29 type 1 and 31 type 2; 29 with 2 copies of SMN2, 29 with 3 copies, and 2 with 4 copies), aged between 3 weeks and 196 months, divided into 2 groups according type of SMA. For both types of SMA, statistically significant negative correlations were found between the elapsed interval from the onset of the disease to the initiation of treatment and upper motor acquisitions (type 1: p < 0.0001, r = -0.713, type 2: p<0.001, r = -0.560) and between age at the beginning of treatment and improvement in motor function (type 1: p <0.0001, r =-0.726, type 2: p<0.001, r=-0.553). For patients with type 2 SMA, a negative correlation was also identified between age at the time of onset and motor evolution (p<0.05, r = -0.378). Electrophysiological parameters were strongly positive correlated with motor improvement (p<0.0001, r=0.600). Our study established the necessity of early SMA diagnosis and therapy beginning, and demonstrated that Compound Motor Action Potential can be a predictive factor in the disease's progression

New methodological aspects in rehabilitation after proximal humerus fracture

Proximal humerus fracture ranks third in the elderly after femoral neck fractures and distal radius fractures, and seventh in adults, and the risk of occurrence is related to advancing age. In this study we aimed to analyze the efficacy of a 24-weeks physical therapy programme based on a particular methodology consisting of the reprogramming of the specific proprioceptive neuromuscular facil-itation techniques added to the classical physical therapy and by introducing modern interactive therapies and technologies: Capacitive Resistive Electric Transference, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization, kinesiological tapes and PRAMA system, compared with classical physical therapy. Our study included 26 patients, aged between 18 and 55 years, with proximal humerus fracture, who complete the 24-weeks rehabilitation programme. We assessed pain, shoulder range of motion, muscle strength and the ability to perform activities of daily living. The statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS and Excel 2021. The results showed statistically significant im-provement in all shoulder motion, increased muscle strength, decreased pain, and a better ability to perform daily activities. The physical therapy programme based on the proposed particular methodology has proven to be more effective than classical physical therapy, both regarding the improvement of the movement parameters compared to the physiological values, as well as the symmetry of both shoulders

ERGONOMIC CONCEPTS IN DENTAL MEDICINE

Dental medicine is an extremely complex medical field, comprising several specialties (orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, prosthodontics, dental surgery, endodontics etc.), which in most cases also require the assistance of a dental nurse. Purpose. In this paper, we have tried to present a number of very interesting ergonomic aspects in the dental office, which aim at simplifying work at this level. Material and method. This study was conducted between May and July 2018 using a questionaire applied to a number of 69 dental practitioners from Bucharest. Results and discussions. Results obtained in this study give us an image about how current dental practitioners understand ergonomics in daily practice. Conlclusions. All the aspects discussed in this study have an important role in the ergonomy of daily activity of a dental office. More important is that the majority of dentists involved in the stuty understand and apply the ergonomic concepts underlined by this study

Fiziologia şi metabolismul oaselor maxilare (vezi reabilitarea implanto-protetică)

Implanturile endoosoase reprezintă un tratament de elecţie, pentru rezolvarea unei largi varietăţi de probleme clinice. Deşi s-au făcut progrese privind studiul calitativ şi cantitativ al diferitelor sisteme implantare de pe piaţă, precum şi al aplicaţiilor clinice ale acestora, ele rămân totuşi limitate. Este esenţial pentru fiecare clinician să cunoască conceptele moderne, privind fiziologia, metabolismul şi biomecanica osoasă. Acest aspect este de cele mai multe ori singurul obiectiv, pentru a crea şi a implementa un plan de tratament inovativ

Noţiuni anatomice privind procesele alveolare şi structurile vecine din perspectiva reabilitării implanto-protetice

Reabilitarea implanto-protetică reprezintă o metodă de tratament extrem de complexă şi în acelaşi timp extrem de completă. Totuşi, pentru abordarea unei soluţii de tratament de reabilitare implanto-protetică este nevoie de o profundă cunoaştere a anatomiei regiunii oro-maxilo-faciale, fără de care această soluţie de tratament poate fi sortită eşecului, încă din faza de debut. De aceea, în continuare, vom încerca o explicitare a noţiunilor de anatomie, care intervin în abordarea acestei soluţii de tratament

The Benthic Trophic Corner Stone Compartment in POPs Transfer from Abiotic Environment to Higher Trophic Levels—Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera Pre-Alert Indicator Role

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been at the forefront of environmental contamination research even before their ban in 2001 at the Stockholm Convention. Their relation to different compartments of the environment (biotic and abiotic) has been thoroughly investigated. This article aims to identify whether the benthos could represent a reliable indicator of environmental contamination with POPs and to highlight its potential transfer role between abiotic and upper trophic compartments—benthos feeders. In this regard, we determined that the Ephemeroptera samples have higher concentrations (p p < 0.05) only in the case of ΣPCB and ΣDDT. This, along with the fact that the frequency of detection for POPs is similar between the sample types (sediments, Trichoptera, and Ephemeroptera), makes the benthos samples valuable indicators of contamination with sediment samples working as complementary information about how recent the contamination is