Sinziana Calina Silisteanu

• Doctor of Physical Therapy
• Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava

In clinical and research settings, the accurate and reliable evaluation of body composition is necessary. Existing methods present various challenges, either in measurement meth-odology or in the assumptions they rely on.The purpose of this study is to conduct a preliminary analysis of patient assessment within a study concerning the impact of hydr...

Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease with serious physical, psychosocial and economic consequences. It is a chronic, asymptomatic, progressive disease with multifactorial aetiology, characterized by reduced bone mineral density and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue; A retrospective study was conducted, which included...

Acts of self-harm are important risk factors for suicide, regardless of whether there is intent to die. Adolescents (15-19 years old, n=131) and young adults (20-24 years old, n=91) were assessed between 2009-2018. There is a statistically significant association between aged 20-24 years old patients and depressive episode, respectively, patients a...

Background: Occupational stress and burnout in the medical field are common factors that can have a negative impact on the quality of clinical care. In the Romanian healthcare environment, there exists important financial difficulties contributing additionally to stress in this study, we aimed to investigate if resilience and emotional intelligence...

Self-inflicted penetrating injuries in patients with mental disorders are a rare phenomenon. The authors report the case of a prisoner who recurrently presented to the emergency department over a period of four years for self-insertion of six metal foreign bodies into the skull. Computed tomography each time revealed the presence of a metal foreign...

Background: The present study addresses the real necessity of covering the gaps related to the actual understanding of the relationships established between weather patterns and the health status of the population. The urban area of Suceava is representative of medium-sized cities in Romania. Methods: Respiratory pathologies manifest with a tempora...

Background: Low back pain is considered a public health problem internationally. Low back pain is a cause of disability that occurs in adolescents and causes negative effects in adults as well. The work environment and physical and psychosocial factors can influence the occurrence and evolution of low back pain. Methods: The purpose of this paper i...

Background. The study aims to perform a somatoscopic analysis on a sample of 100 prepubertal children aged 10-14 years, girls and boys, who are diagnosed with scoliosis. Somato-scopic assessment is one of the most commonly used, therefore we thought that making a way of interpreting the results could be useful to monitor postural attitude in childr...

This study by design, approach, duration and number of respondents is the first of its kind for Suceava and Romania. The first objective of the study was to assess the average level of thermal perceptions of the population in the researched area. Methods: The respondents appreciated and wrote the level of comfort/discomfort felt daily, the interdiu...

Background: The study responds to real needs of knowing the bioclimate of some tourist resorts in order to develop different types of tourism, in which the bioclimate plays a significant role. In Romania, a similar study was carried out for the resort towns of Vatra Dornei and Tg. Ocna. Methods: The research is based on time series of weather eleme...

The literature focuses more on healthy students, and the methodologies for organising physical education lessons do not address in depth the problem of physically exempt students who, with time, transform from exempt students into possible patients. This research aims to develop the application "Info-Scutit-Efort" in physical educa-tion lessons to...

Background: The aim of the paper is to assess the cognitive and functional status of a segment of the population for a senescent age group. These assessments can help develop intervention strategies to improve the cognitive and functional status of these individuals as well as promote a healthy and active lifestyle. The assessment of cognitive and...

Background: Analysis of risk factors and prevalence of osteoporosis in an elderly population suggests a study focused on identifying and evaluating factors contributing to osteoporosis among them. (2) Methods: The aim of this paper is to analyse and compare the prevalence levels of osteoporosis in different age groups in adult women, focusing on th...

The main purpose of the study was to identify the level of improvement in cognitive flexi-bility manifested by choice and cognition reaction times in relation to manual and podal skills as a result of the implementation of a program of therapeutic exergame exercises, for a time interval of 6 weeks at the level of students. 511 students participated...

This systematic review investigates the potential health and wellness benefits of natural calcium-rich mineral waters. It emphasizes the importance of dietary calcium sourced from natural mineral waters in promoting bone health, maintaining cardiovascular function, aiding in weight management, and enhancing overall well-being. The review process in...

Psychosomatic disorders confront a myriad of challenges, including insufficient mental health community services, on the one hand, and physician rejection and stigmatization of psychiatric symptoms on the other. Unhealthy lifestyle choices interact in a negative way with the Romanian people's health; these choices account for around half of the cou...

Lithium is a source of great scientific interest because although it has such a simple structure, relatively easy-to-analyze chemistry, and well-established physical properties, the plethora of effects on biological systems—which influence numerous cellular and molecular processes through not entirely explained mechanisms of action—generate a myste...

Traumatic spinal cord injury is a life-changing condition with a significant socio-economic impact on patients, their relatives, their caregivers, and even the community. Despite considerable medical advances, there is still a lack of options for the effective treatment of these patients. The major complexity and significant disabling potential of...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a frequent medical problem, affecting more than 4% of the population in most countries. In the context of diabetes, the vascular endothelium can play a crucial pathophysiological role. If a healthy endothelium—which is a dynamic endocrine organ with autocrine and paracrine activity—regulates vascular tone and permeability...

Background and Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 significantly marked people’s lives with respect to their behavior, and their physical and mental health. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in 2021 for a period of 5 months. The study sample included 218 students from the College of Physica...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental illness associated with a significant degree of distress and impairment because of the difficulties in effectively regulating emotions. BPD is frequently associated with Depressive Disorders, most commonly Major Depressive Disorder and Dysthymia. Here, we present a case report of an 18-year-old fema...

COVID-19 emerged in December 2019 and had become a pandemic within 4 months, so that in July 2020, over 14,000,000 people had been diagnosed with this new coronavirus. The emergence of this new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been a challenge to health systems worldwide through its increased infectivity and rapid transmission. As of March 12, 2020, ac...

Introduction. SARS CoV-2 caused the third global pandemic and by applying quarantine / isolation / lockdown, the movement was restricted, the physical contact between people was reduced, the physical activity was low, but the activities using electronic devices at home were frequent. The aim of the study was to assess the physical and emotional he...

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze epidemiological and clinical features of children screened for COVID-19 at Sibiu Pediatric Clinical Hospital during the first 9 months (March–November) of coronavirus disease pandemic in Romania. A total of 203 pediatric patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 were included in the study. The...

In this study we aim to study in what way the Strength of motivation of the Romanian medical students has been influenced by harsh economic conditions that led to a massive migration. We conducted a cross-sectional study on a sample size of N=1516. We applied The Strength of Motivation for Medical School-Revised (SMMS) questionnaire and a questionn...

It is known, certainly, that it is much easier to form a correct attitude than to correct the vicious one, a reason that must determine the approach of prophylactic means of physical therapy and therapeutic swimming. The identification, at an early stage, of the etiological factors responsible for the installation of postural deficiencies, is a det...

Introduction. Knee osteoarthritis is considered to be a chronic disease that affects the joints by causing pain, joint stiffness and decreased functional capacity. Regular physical activity can keep and increase functional capacity, it can reduce pain by improving movement behavior. The disruption of the sedentary behavior of the elderly patients w...

IntroductionSARS-CoV-2 virus infection was first reported in China in late 2019 and has spread rapidly around the world. There is little information about the peculiarities of COVID-19 infection in children because the number of infected children was small, around 2% of all diseases.Methods In this retrospective study, we recruited 143 children inf...

The beneficial effects of natural healing factors (mineral or thermal waters, mud, topoclimate and microclimate) have been known ever since antiquity. In our country there are proofs of the presence and effects of mineral/ thermal waters ever since the Dacian period. They used mineral waters for therapeutic purposes or for their healing effects. Th...

Introduction. Osteoarthritis is considered to be the most common form of arthritis and a leading disability cause worldwide, especially due to the painful symptom. The latter is a clinical marker in evaluating the limits of joint mobility and therefore, the pain reduction is a goal of the recovery treatment for patients with knee osteoarthritis. Th...

Introduction. The performance areas of post-stroke mention negatively correlated determinants in doing daily activities. The intrinsic motor recovery depends on the primary motor deficit. The functional recovery of patients with post-stroke sequelae is not only based on the remission of the functional deficit, but it also depends on the ability to...

Introduction.According to the criteria of WHO, stroke is a health condition that causes focal or global brain disorders (1), but without an apparent nonvascular cause. Stroke is considered the third leading cause of death in industrialized countries and accounts for 9% of all deaths, being considered one of the largest cases of disability in the wo...

Introduction. Osteoarthritis is considered a complex biopsychosocial condition, with consequences for the patient, the family, society and public health. Age is considered the main risk factor in the occurrence of osteoarthritis. Studies show that 2 out of 3 obese individuals associate knee osteoarthritis whereas the incidence of the latter increas...

Stroke represents the third - leading cause of death after heart and neoplastic is ease and is one of the biggest cause of disability worldwide. Cardioembolism, through its principal mechanism - atrial fibrillation - constitute an important cause of ischemic stroke. Otherwise, left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) has been associated with a twofold in...

This study was to demonstrate the role of a natural anti-inflammatory, in reducing pain, inflammatory process and increasing joint mobility in elderly patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis off knee affect the articular cartilage, but also the articular capsule, leading to disability. This natural anti-inflammatory has a comple...

Introduction. Osteoarthritis is a chronic joint disease, a progressive non-inflammatory arthropathy-type. Globally, around 1.7 billion people are affected by musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases, which indicates an increase in the last 20 years of around 45%. Material and method. The objectives of the treatment of patients diagnosed with osteoart...

The hand is considered to be one of the most important structures of the human body, with the help of which we can do different kinds of activities. A lesion of the hand can destabilise the patient from a physical point of view but also from a psycho-social one. The distal radius fractures are the cause of morbidity for patients and determine the d...

Introductions. Lymphedema is an interstitial accumulation of protein-rich lymph fluid, due to the post-therapeutic alteration of lymphatic circulation in the upper limb. The appearance of lymphedema is favoured by a number of risk factors. All of these factors ultimately lead to a process of tissue fibrosis. Materials and methods. This study was ca...

Intrduction.Etoricoxibum belongs to the group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory inhibitors selective of cyclooxygenase-2. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used to treat acute musculoskeletal disorders as they result in pain-relieving therapeutical effect. Etoricoxibum intervenes by blocking cyclooxygenase-2 and by reducing the painful...

Magnesium is an essential nutrient for the living organisms and plays an important part in the prevention and treatment of many diseases. It is an enzymatic cofactor for more than 300 reactions. Magnesium is essential for regulating blood pressure, muscle contraction, cardiac excitability, insulin metabolism, vasomotor tonus. Studying the way in wh...

The low back pain is a public health problem, affecting the adult population and the young one. It is estimated that 90% of the population will experience at least one episode of lower lumbar pain during their lifetime, half of whom may have a second painful episode during the same year. Frequently, the mechanical cause (the pain is somatic and dee...

Osteoarthritis is a condition that causes pain and invalidity in people over 40. The patient feels pains, limitation of mobility, physical dysfunction, joint cramps, in stability and walking disorders. The study aims at assessing the effects of ultrasound application and at quantifying the results obtained in order to increase the patients’ quality...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neuropsychiatric condition characterized by progressive cognitive symptoms.The social and psychological costs associated with the care of AD patients are very high; therefore, significant funds for research in this field are being invested worldwide. The accuracy of medical methods for establishing the diagnosi...

Introduction Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural damage to bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and increased susceptibility to fractures. In Romania, menopause was found 10 years earlier than the internationally accepted limit, which increases the risk of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is the result of bone loss t...

The effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in abarticular conditions are well known. The aim was to compare the efficacy of NSAIDs, of Diclofenac drug class (Voltaren gel, in this case) applied topically, with and without ultrasound, for a period of 10 days in abarticular rheumatic diseases. The following parameters have been aime...

The effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in abarticular conditions are well known. The aim was to compare the efficacy of NSAIDs, of Diclofenac drug class (Voltaren gel, in this case) applied topically, with and without ultrasound, for a period of 10 days in abarticular rheumatic diseases. The following parameters have been aime...

Introduction. The coxarthrosis is a degenerative disorder in the coxofemoral joint, more common in adults aged 40-70 years. The coxofemoral arthritis is important in static and locomotion. Motivation. The need to evaluate the functional recovery level of the patients diagnosed with primary coxarthrosis by using the elemental functional mobility coe...

Low back pain (LBP) is a disease with a high socio-economic and medical impact. Recovery treatment is complex and includes medication (NSAIDs, analgesics, muscle relaxants), physiotherapy and kinesiology. Ultrasound is one of the electrotherapy procedures applied due to its analgesic effects, muscle relaxing properties and massage. The study assess...

The cerebrovascular accident is associated to the alteration of the static and dynamic balance in orthostatism, during the walk and in the sitting position. There are 65,000 people who have a cerebrovascular accident every year, namely 178 cases a day. For patients who had a cerebrovascular accident, it is essential to divide the recovery period in...

The cerebrovascular accident is a major health issue, with medical and economic consequences upon the society. The cerebrovascular accident determines the sensorial and motor impairment, the speech and postural control impairment. Some patients who had a cerebrovascular accident may have difficulties in the response to the postural perturbations. S...

Medical analysis laboratory must establish its own reference intervals depending on the facilities they are working with, the working substances and protocols. These reference intervals must be obtained depending on age groups in order to accurately interpret the results of the analyzes performed. The study is a retrospective one using 3217 data fr...

The cerebral vascular diseases are a major issue of public health, being on the second place in Europe after the cardiovascular diseases. The rehabilitation of the patients diagnosed with a stroke requires long-term programmes of recovery and healthcare, which determines increased costs of the medical recovery for the patients as well as for the so...

The hand is a very important segment in gestures, functionality and the achievement of ADL. The Carpal tunnel syndrome was described for the first time by Paget in 1854 , being a very frequent health condition of the extremity in the upper limb caused by the compression of the median nerve at the level of the fibre bone tunnel at the level of the h...

The goal of the study is to evaluate the predictive role of body weight in the emergence and management of chronic low back pain (CLBP). The relationship between obesity-low back pain (LBP) and the phenomenon of degeneration of the lumbar disc (LDD) is not well known. Several factors such as family history, genetics and the environment can all cont...

Nutrition is the basis of energy supply in all forms of physical activity. The main goals are maintaining nutritional health and meet the needs in these situations nutritional diet should be balanced, especially for sporting disciplines involving mass and body composition controlled. We studied a total of 78 students between 20–26 years of age, who...

LBP management is complex and costly, with socio-economic and medical implications. Disabilities caused by painful back disorders represent a major problem of absenteeism from work (1). The prevalence of LBP in the active population (25-64 years old) is increasing. There are studies (2) showing that between 60 and 80% of people may suffer from back...

Degenerative diseases rank third in the world after cardiovascular and oncologic diseases. Degenerative diseases of the cervical spine are characterized by chronic pain, limited cervical mobility and radiation to the neck and shoulder, upper limb or the skull with dynamic cervical disorders. The highest frequency of such events is found in the age...