A preliminary study of the relation between back-pain and plantar-pressure evolution during pregnancy.

This work presents the dynamic study of the plantar pressure in a group of 15 pregnant women. An instrumented insoles (ECnsole) developed by the research group were used in order to measure the plantar pressure distribution. A questionnaire that described their perception of the back pain were filled by the participants. This test were repeated in weeks 12, 20 and 32 of pregnancy. From our preliminary results, the centre pressure in the Y-axis in both foot were slightly displaced towards the heel in week test 20 and 32, and it agrees with the onset of back pain in pregnant women.

Evidencias clínicas de la fitoterapia en las infecciones genitales bajas / Clinical evidences of phytotherapy in lower genital tract infections

El interés por la fitoterapia en el tratamiento dela vulvovaginitis es reciente y se debe principalmente a las reacciones adversas, la toxicidad y las recidivas que se producen que se producen a menudo con los tratamientos farmacológicos habituales. Se realizó una búsqueda en bases bibliográficas médicas y páginas web de medicina alternativa, detectándose un total de 13 ensayos clínicos. Tres de ellos están escritos en chino, de los que sólo fue posible obtener el resumen. Se valoró su calidad metodológica, infiriéndose el nivel de evidencia. Se comentan los hallazgos fundamentales (AU)

The interest of Phytotherapy in the treatment of vulvovaginitis is recent and it is mainly due to the adverse reactions, toxicity and relapses that are often produced by standard drug therapies. A literature search using medical bibliography databases and alternative medicine websites detected a total of 13 clinical trials. Three of them were in Chinese, for which it was only possible to obtain the summary. Methodological quality was assessed, inferring the level of evidence. Key findings are discussed. We emphasize the usefulness of green tea catechins in the syntomatic treatment of genital warts (AU)