Characteristics of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis – A 5-year Study at Benghazi Medical Center, Benghazi, Libya by Magda Elshukri, Kathloum Elkaseh, Anwaar Mukhtar Bennour, Heba Abdelrazek El-Zawawi

“…Conclusion: Newly diagnosed pwMS in the eastern part of Libya is characterized by a mild disability as manifested by a low disability score. …”
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Skull defect – Frontotemporal dementia sagging brain syndrome by Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel M. Maya, Robin Babadjouni, Angelique Sao‐Mai S. Tay, Rachelle B. Taché

“…Custom cranial implant surgery was performed in four patients and resulted in prompt and remarkable improvement of symptoms in three patients (SIHDAS: very severe disability to no or mild disability) and mild improvement in one patient. …”
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Sleep quality in rheumatoid arthritis by Anil Kumar, Rohini Handa, Sundeep Kumar Upadhyaya, Sirinder Jit Gupta, Deepak Ramchandra Malgutte

“…Disease activity was assessed by simplified disease activity index, functional disability was assessed by the health assessment questionnaire disability index-Centre for Rheumatic Diseases version, and quality of life was evaluated by World Health Organization quality of life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). …”
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The Main Determinants for Suicidal Ideation in a Romanian Cohort of Multiple Sclerosis Patients by Andreea Romaniuc, Rodica Bălaşa, Nicoleta Ştirbu, Smaranda Maier, Sebastian Andone, Zoltan Bajko, Laura Bărcuţean, Septimiu Voidăzan, Anca Moţăţăianu

“…They completed a survey about their demographic characteristics, psycho-socio-economic data, and disease-related information. Their disability level was assessed using the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) based on the neurological examination performed by the same doctor for every patient and the SC were documented with the Beck Depression Inventory-II questionnaire. …”
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Les mécanismes de sollicitation à la demande d'aide privilégiés par les étudiants du postsecondaire by Nicole Racette, Louise Sauvé, Normand Bourgault, Denise Berthiaume, Marie-Michèle Roy

“…Only 49,1 % of students who frequently encounter difficulties but do not have a learning disability access help, whereas 75,8 % of students with learning disabilities access help.…”
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“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…Through the grotesque and laughter, Lethem challenges the traditional representation of disability—and the stereotype of the disabled person—and also the major genres his novel borrows from: detective fiction and the coming-of-age narrative. …”
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A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma by Diwei Lin, Amanda Jia Hui Tan, Rajinder Singh-Rai

“…In 2012, testicular cancer was estimated to account for 940 disability adjusted life years in Australia; of these, 450 were years lost due to premature death and 500 were years of healthy life lost due to disease, disability, or injury (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australasian Association of Cancer Registries, 2012). …”
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Impaired Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Function in Pediatric Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions with Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders by Gisela Chelimsky, Pippa Simpson, Liyun Zhang, Doug Bierer, Steve Komas, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Thomas Chelimsky

“…Tree analysis selected SRC as the best predictor of functional disability: patients with SRC >150 had a greater FDI (more disability) compared to patients with SRC <=150, p-value = 0.021. …”
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The Disparagement of Pain: Social Influences on Medical Thinking by Harold Merskey, Robert W Teasell

“…Pain was then treated as less troublesome when it became a reason for disability compensation to be paid. Examples are given of the disparagement of complaints by individuals reporting pain in the past 150 years. …”
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Hip Fracture. A Nine-Year Study. by Horacio Suárez Monzón, Rolando Delgado Figueredo, Eduardo Sarmiento Sánchez, Juan Carlos Cabrera Suárez

“…Variable such as age, sex, and topographical diagnosis, and surgical modality, scale of disability, comorbidity, complications, lethality, and second time of admission were taken into account and collected in the analyzed period of time and in specific clinical records elaborated for this purpose. …”
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Retour au travail après une lésion professionnelle : étude de cas sur les effets du droit sur l’expérience des justiciables by Katherine Lippel, Camille Lanthier-Riopel

“…Avenues are suggested to improve the regulatory effectiveness of laws designed to prevent work disability.…”
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Western Medical Rehabilitation through Time: A Historical and Epistemological Review by Andrea A. Conti

“…The history of medical rehabilitation is closely linked to the history of disability. In the ancient western world disabled subjects were excluded from social life. …”
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Rethinking love, independence, and speciesism in assistance dog discourse by Birkan Taş

“…Incorporating insights from human-animal studies and disability studies, the paper seeks to enrich sociological research on emotions and power structures, advocating for a shift toward valuing the labor and wellbeing of assistance dogs. …”
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The Christchurch Earthquake: Crush Injury, Neuropathic Pain, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Frances Cammack, Edward A. Shipton

“…Post-traumatic stress disorder is common in earthquake survivors with a recognised association with chronic pain. Pain-related disability may increase as well. Issues such as chronic pain and physical disability should not be overlooked as attention focuses on disaster management and the treatment of life-threatening injuries.…”
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Aquatic Exercise Programs for Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? by J. W. Gorter, S. J. Currie

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A 2‐year longitudinal study of the association between unhealthy lifestyle factors and the development of depressive symptoms in university students by Ryuji Furihata, Mami Ishida, Yukako Nakagami, Maya Yanase, Teruhisa Uwatoko, Satoe Okabayashi, Kosuke Kiyohara, Takashi Kawamura

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Burden of type 2 diabetes and its relationship with human development index in Asian countries: Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019 by Seyed Ahmadreza Alinaghian, Shokoufeh Hamidzadeh, Afsaneh Badrizadeh, Zaher Khazaei, Amirhossein Souri, Victoria Momenabadi, Elham Goodarzi

“…We estimated all-cause and cause-specific mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and attributable risk. …”
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Effectiveness of dry needling combined with eccentric strength training in lateral epicondylalgia with trigger points by Sukumar Shanmugam, Lawrence Mathias, Ramprasad Muthukrishnan, Praveen Kumar Kandakurti, Satheeskumar Durairaj

“…Handgrip, pain and disability scores of patient rated tennis elbow evaluation (PRTEE) at baseline, 4th week, 6th week, and follow-up of 12th week were analysed. …”
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Persistently different patterns of patient’s global assessment of health in rheumatoid arthritis are associated with pain and impaired function more than with inflammation: an ince... by Sofia Ajeganova, Ingiäld Hafström, Valentina Bala, Björn Svensson

“…Multivariate linear regression and mixed models were used to evaluate associations between PGA, inflammation, pain and disability.Results Totally 2238 patients were included in 1991–2006. …”
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Correlates of oral health-related quality of life in a sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Fatemeh Babadi, Atefeh Hasanzadeh, Mehdi Aghajari, Mahmood Karimy, Marzieh Araban

“…The DMFT index was 14.44 ± 6.63, the mean OHRQoL score was 24.72 ± 5.33, the mean general health score was 5.71 ± 2.21, and the mean disability severity score was 11.62 ± 62.11. Of all variables examined, gender, age, duration of RA, Khuzestan nativity status, smoking, anemia, hyperlipidemia, DMFT index, general health, disability, diabetes, acute kidney disease, and hypertension were significantly associated with OHRQoL(p > 0.05). …”
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