Correlação entre alterações lombares e modificações no arco plantar em mulheres com dor lombar / Relationship between lumbar changes and modifications in the plantar arch in women with low back pain

Objetivo: Avaliar provável correlação entre arco plantar, curvatura lombar e dores lombares. Métodos: foram avaliadas 18 mulheres com queixa de dor lombar, submetidas a uma avaliação que constava de dados pessoais e de um exame físico com medidas antropométricas, avaliação do arco plantar por meio fotopodoscopia, avaliação da postura do paciente por meio do biofotogrametria, ambos utilizando o programa SAPO, além de avaliação da dor lombar pela escala visual analógica (EVA). A idade média dos participantes era de 30,45 (±6,25) anos. Resultados: Na avaliação dos pés foram observadas oito pessoas com pés planos, seis com pés cavos e quatro com pés normais. Todas relataram quadro álgico em coluna lombar, com valores mais elevados na EVA nas voluntárias com pés cavos. Verificou-se correlação do arco plantar com a angulação da coluna lombar: (r = -0,71, p = 0,004). Conclusão: o pé cavo pode estar correlacionado com quadro álgico mais intenso, havendo correlação positiva moderada entre pé plano e aumento na curvatura lombar e pé cavo com retificação da lombar. Nível de Evidência IV. Série de Casos.

Objective: Evaluate the probable relationship among plantar arch, lumbar curvature, and low back pain. Methods: fifteen healthy women were assessed taking in account personal data and anthropometric measurements, photopodoscopic evaluation of the plantar arch, and biophotogrammetric postural analysis of the patient (both using the SAPO software), as well as evaluation of lumbar pain using an Visual Analog Scale (VAS). The average age of the participants was 30.45 (±6.25) years. Results: of the feet evaluated, there were six individuals with flat feet, five with high arch, and four with normal feet. All reported algic syndrome in the lumbar spine, with the highest VAS values for the volunteers with high arch. Correlation was observed between the plantar arch and the angle of the lumbar spine (r = 0.71, p = 0.004). Conclusion: high arch was correlated with more intense algic syndrome, while there was moderate positive correlation between flat foot and increased lumbar curvature, and between high arch and lumbar correction.

Compression of the medial branch of the deep peroneal nerve, relieved by excision of an os intermetatarseum. A case report.

The authors report a case of direct compression of the medial branch of the deep peroneal nerve by an os intermetatarseum in a 52-year-old female patient who was referred to their Institution because of pain over the dorsum of her left foot associated with paraesthesias in the first web space. Examination disclosed a positive Tinel sign over the dorsal aspect of the first metatarsal bone. Plain radiographs revealed a small, irregular accessory ossicle on the dorsum of the left foot, between the medial cuneiform and first and second metatarsals. At operation, the os intermetatarseum was found to impinge on the medical branch of the deep peroneal nerve. Excision of the os intermetatarseum and nerve decompression was performed. After four years, the patient has normal function and is completely relieved of her symptoms.

D-bifunctional protein deficiency with fetal ascites, polyhydramnios, and contractures of hands and toes.

Fetal abnormalities including chylous ascites, polyhydramnios, claw hands, and hammer toes were identified in an infant who had a missense mutation R106P and a 52bp deletion in the gene for a peroxisomal beta-oxidation enzyme, D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydratase/D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, D-bifunctional protein. The patient had psychomotor retardation and craniofacial dysmorphism and died at 7 months of age. The patient had atypical fetal manifestations of this enzyme deficiency.

Associated anomalies in individuals with polydactyly.

An epidemiological analysis of the association of polydactyly with other congenital anomalies was performed in 5,927 consecutively born polydactyly cases. They were grouped into three categories: duplicated fifth digit, duplicated first digit, and rare polydactylies; also into isolated or associated groups, if other birth defects were or were not observed in the same infant. Associated cases were further subdivided into: combined, if the other defect was a limb defect; syndromic, if a non-limb defect constituted a recognized causal or pathogenetic entity; and MCA, if a non-limb defect did not constitute a recognized entity. In 14.6% of the 5,927 polydactyly cases studied, polydactyly was not the only congenital anomaly. This associated proportion was minimal for postaxial (11.8%), intermediate for preaxial-I (20.0%), and maximal for rare polydactyly (54.9%). Duplication of the fifth toe plus syndactyly of fourth and fifth toes, as well as other syndactylies adjacent to the duplicated digit is the most frequent type. Syndactyly of fourth and fifth toes was also combined with a duplicated fifth finger, suggesting the existence of an arrested or amputated in utero sixth toe. Polydactylies are rarely associated with other congenital anomalies except in recognizable syndromes. When syndromes are excluded, most of the significant positive associations disappear. Trisomy 13, Meckel, and Down syndrome explained 255 of the 338 syndromic polydactyly cases. Down syndrome is strongly associated with first-digit duplication, and negatively associated with postaxial polydactyly. The latter could not be explained by maternal age differences among Black and non-Black case sub-sets.

Luxación de cadera en pacientes con espina bífida / Hip dislocation in patients with spina bifida

Spina bifida is commonly associated with hydrocephalus and feet malformations, however its association with congenital dislocation of the hip is not well document. We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 120 children aged 6 months to 15 years old admited to a rehabilitation center with the diagnosis of spina bifida. Fifty six children (55.4 percent) had dislocation of the hip (36 of 53 women and 20 of 48 men). These figures are higher than those reported for newborns by the Latin-American Collaborative Stud of Congenital Malformations. We conclude that congenital dislocation of the hip is frequent in children with spina bifida