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Introduction: Low back pain is a symptom and not a disease.The low back pain is considered to incorporate dorsal painfound any place between the 12 thoracic vertebra and lowerbuttock up to gluteal folds or anus. Lumbar spondylosis is atypical reason for chronic low back pain and chronic disability.Objective: The main purpose of this research is to give acomparative analysis between short wave diathermy andinfrared radiation for treating lower back pain caused byspondylosis.Method: This was an observational study. A randomizedclinical trial study was conducted on Department of PhysicalMedicine and Rehabilitation, BSMMU, Shahbagh, Dhaka on153 patients who came to hospital with lower back pain andsuffered from spondylosis. The study duration was from 1stMarch 2010 to 15 September, 2010.Results: Out of 153 patients, irrespective of sex, it was foundthat most of the patients (50.98%) belong to 40-49 years agegroup followed by: 50-59 years (27.45%), 30-39 years(11.11%) and 60-70 years (10.46%) age group. in 72.2%patients prolonged sitting exacerbate the lower back pain.Prolonged standing was also found as another aggravatingfactor of pain among the study patients (17.6%). Prolongedwalking (5.9%) and leaning forward (3.3%) came next in theorder of aggravating factors for lower back pain. The study alsoshowed the performance difference between SWD and IRR onthe patients.Conclusion: Considering the information gathered from thisstudy, it can be concluded that all the tested therapies seemedto improve the patients with chronic low back pain. But IRR andSWD showed no significant difference in improvement for thepatients with chronic LBP due to lumbar spondylosis.
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Background: Adhesive capsulitis is characterized by a painful, gradual loss of both active and passive glenohumeral motion resulting from progressive fibrosis and ultimate contracture of the glenohumeral joint capsule. Patients with Adhesive capsulitis have difficulties in everyday activities (dressing, grooming, and performing overhead reaching activities and so on for a period of several months to several years) and shoulder pain disturbing sleep at night on the affected side. Muscle energy technique helps in increasing shoulder range of motion. MET is unique in its application as the client provides the initial effort while the practitioner facilitates the process. One of the main uses of this method is to normalize joint range, rather than increase flexibility, and techniques can be used on any joints with restricted Range of Motion (ROM) identified during the passive assessment. So the study was done to evaluate the effect of MET on adhesive capsulitis. Aim: This study was designed to evaluate the effect of Spencer MET on Pain and Functional Disability in Adhesive Capsulitis of Shoulder joint. Materials and methods: An Interventional study was conducted at Out Patient Department of General Hospitals in Ahmedabad. The subjects were selected according to inclusion criteria. The Pretraining outcome of Pain (VAS) and SPADI was taken and then subjects were divided into two groups’ one case and other control. Group A: was given conventional treatment along with MET for adhesive capsulitis. Group B: not getting any additional training for adhesive capsulitis other than Contractor ES, Agnihotri DS, Patel RM. Effect of Spencer Muscle Energy Technique on pain and functional disability in cases of adhesive capsulitis of shoulder joint. IAIM, 2016; 3(8): 126-131. Page 127 conventional treatment. The study was conducted for 6 months and treatment was given for 4 weeks 3 days a week and once a day. After 4 weeks post treatment outcome data were analysed for results. Results: Data was analysed using SPSS software version 20 and Microsoft Excel 2007. In case and control both pain (VAS), SPADI showed significant improvement (p; 0.05). But there was more significant improvement in case as compared to control group in SPADI but not in VAS. Conclusion: The Spencer MET is more effective increasing functional ability in patients with adhesive capsulitis as compared to conventional treatment.
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Objective To observe the effect of short wave diathermy on the functioning of dendritic cells ( DCs) derived from the spleens of hepatitis B virus ( HBV) transgenic mice. Methods HBV transgenic mice were treated with short wave diathermy for 10 days. Dendritic cells were then separated from their spleens and incubated with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor ( GM-CSF) and interleukin-4 ( IL-4 ). The phenotypes of the DCs were assayed by flow cytometry ( FCM) ,IL-12 released by the DCs and IL-10 and IFN-? produced by the T cells in a mixed lymphocyte reaction( MLR) were measured using ELISA. Results Short wave diathermy could enhance the DCs' phenotype expression, increase IL-12 levels ( P