Can Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Help Us in Managing, Easy and Faster Our Patients' Health Problems?

Bioelectrical impedance principle it is a new way of detecting abnormal cellular response. Wegamed devices use this method to discover in a holistic manner a view of the man in all dimensions, body, emotions and intellect, and correlate's the treatment with the characteristics of the individual at all these levels. The aim of the study was to see if using alternative medicine methods can we evaluate correct and noninvasive the patients. Material and methods: A retrospective study was conducted to investigate the correlations between the clinical and paraclinically diagnoses and the diagnoses offered by the Wegamed devices. The study includes 440 patients who referred to our clinic between January 2013 and January 2016, who were thoroughly examined through evidence-based medicine methods and then undergo the Test expert plus analyze. Results: This retrospective study showed a concordance for some pathologies and diagnostics. The concordance was 100% for acute or oncological pathologies and for other pathologies, mostly chronic, degenerative; the most important is the doctor, who must interpret and correlate, based on his/her experience. Conclusion: The classical diagnostic methods can provide accuracy, but a personalized treatment requires viewing the man in all dimensions and specific correlations with the characteristics of the individual.

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE--A WAY OF SMOKING CESSATION?

Specialists have the ethical obligation to promote smoking cessation using evidence-based therapeutic strategies. In the context of the growing popularity of the electronic cigarettes (ECs), the smokers asking us about it and we must be ready to provide expert advice. With the evidence available to date we must be cautious in recommending of the smokers to use ECs for smoking cessation because these have not proven superiority over drugs used for smoking cessation approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ECs are not FDA approved, short-term safety data shows that they cause airway reactivity and health risk of exposure to ECs in the long term is unknown. Before the ECs to occupy a place in the standard clinical approaches for the treatment of tobacco addiction longer needed more data about their safety clinical and regulatory of their use.

Differentiation of patients with chronic lombosciatica due to disc hernia using gait analysis techniques.

UNLABELLED: Nowadays gait analysis represent a modern technique used as a useful tool in the assessment of patients with locomotors disease. AIM: To make a differentiation of patients with chronic sciatica due to disc hernia using gait analysis techniques. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Study was prospective, with consecutive selection of subjects according to eligibility criteria, using a control group. The number of subjects was 47: 28 patients and 19 healthy subjects. The patients were characterized clinically, imagistically and biomechanically. The biomechanically evaluation was made with VICON MX optical motion capture system. Our data of interest were: temporo-spatial and kinematic parameters. These data were factorial analyzed with a principal component extraction technique, resulting 10 variables, which characterized the system variability in 94.67%. Next step was represented by a hierarchical cluster analysis for sub-group identification. RESULTS: We have differentiated two clusters. The two clusters were individualized regarding the temporo-spatial parameters (opposite foot contact, step width) as well as the kinematic parameters (maximum upward rotation in stance of pelvis, maximum adduction of the hip in stance, maximum abduction of the hip in swing, maximum plantar flexion angle in swing, total sagittal plane excursion of the ankle). CONCLUSIONS: The two clusters can be defined as following: cluster 1: reduced stance phase and mainly distal problems (of the ankle); cluster 2: normal stance phase duration, severely low step width and mainly proximal problems (pelvic belt).