ABSTRACT
The study aims to document the oral lesions in patients with UC. Inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] is comprised of two chronic, tissue-destructive and clinical entities including Crohn's disease [CD] and ulcerative colitis [UC], both of which are immunologically based. The population of the study includes fifty patients with UC, as the experimental group, and fifty patients without gastrointestinal disease as the control group. All patients had an oral examination and completed the relevant questionnaire. There was a significant statistical relationship among tongue coating [<0.0001], halitosis [<0.0001], and oral ulceration [0.001] in patients suffering from severe UC compared to the control group. Also there was a higher prevalence of oral manifestations in patients with moderate UC compared to that of control group; but taste change [0.001] was the only significant factor. Acidic taste and taste change were among the symptoms more commonly found in patients suffering from pancolitis [40% each]. The results of the present study show that patients with UC had more oral signs and symptoms than the patients in the normal group. Further researches on oral lesions in UC are also recommended so that these diseases can be better understood
ABSTRACT
The use of back support is one of the common methods aimed to prevent low back pain. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of wearing a lumbosacral support on lumbar spine velocity and torque in six directions during combined trunk motion. In this interventional study, 30 young healthy men were selected simply from convenient samples. They were asked to stand in Isostation B200 system and perform three-dimensional trunk motion against a resistance of 50% of maximal voluntary contraction torque while wearing or not wearing a lumbosacral support. Under each condition of test, five successive motions of trunk were performed in downward direction [as flexion, right lateral flexion, and right rotation] and upward direction [as extension, left lateral flexion, and left rotation], and the variables of average velocity and average torque were recorded during motion. With the use of a lumbosacral support, average velocity was significantly increased in flexion [P=0.015] and extension [P=0.005], but no significant changes were found in other directions [P>0/05]. Back support decreased average torque of right rotation significantly [P=0.006], but did not significantly changed this variable in other directions [P>0/05]. Wearing a lumbosacral support can increase velocity in sagittal plane. Decreased rotation torque of trunk, as a result of using a back support, may reduce the twisting forces on lumbar spine joints