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Low-back pain is frequent, especially in the active adult population after an osteoporotic vertebral fracture. Several orthopaedic conditions can cause low back pain, significantly worsening the quality of life. The treatments vary from drugs, physical therapy, kinesiology, and local infiltration. TECARs have a crucial role in treating the inflammatory causes of pain, with several studies demonstrating the efficacy of 0.5 Mh radio frequency longwave therapy in treating low-back pain. We treat twenty consecutive patients with low back pain after a vertebral amielic spinal fracture with or without leg pain, using a combination of painkillers, orthosis, and half of them tecar therapy. The patients were treated three times a week, every other day, for 20 sessions. We evaluated clinical outcomes using the visual analogic scale for individual pain. Tests started before the beginning of therapies and eight weeks after the end of the treatment. Visual analogic scale (VAS) score significantly improved from an average value pretreatment to a 50% reduction average value eight weeks posttreatment. Patients denoted a more significant improvement in VAS and empiric patient satisfaction in the group with low back pain also treated with TECAR. Acute back pain is a relatively common clinical situation. The treatments for this condition are different, and they can give 2 a crucial role in diathermia, shortwave, microwave, and tecar therapy. This study concludes that the association between painkillers, orthosis, exercises, and tecar therapy in treating low-back Pain after an amyelic vertebral spine fracture type genant, with or without leg pain, can significantly reduce pain and improve the quality of life. ''Highlights'' Diathermy Tecar is an almost new and updated physical therapy that uses electromagnetic waves to treat muscle and joint pain through capacitive and resistive pads. It provides good pain relief for several sharp pains. The physiotherapist should be trained to use them appropriately in acute settings. Clin Ter 2024; 175 (5):291-295 doi: 10.7417/CT.2024.5133 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses how the British political elite has securitised migration and asylum since 9/11 by looking at when and how parliamentary debates linked counter-terrorism to immigration and/or asylum. The findings suggest that there is considerable reluctance within the political elite to introduce or especially sustain the connection between migration and terrorism too intensely in public debate. The parliamentary debates also show that for understanding the securitising of migration and asylum one cannot focus exclusively on the main security framing that is found in counter-terrorism debates, which we name ‘the politics of exception’. There is at least one other format, which we call ‘the politics of unease’, that is central to how the British political elite securitises migration and asylum, and contests it, in the public realm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books Reviewed Tsebelis George, VETO PLAYERS: how political institutions work, (FRANK VIBERT), Biezen Ingrid van, POLITICAL PARTIES IN NEW DEMOCRACIES: party organization in Southern and East-Central Europe, (SERGEY KHRYCHIKOV), Layton-Henry Zig and Wilpert Czarina (eds), CHALLENGING RACISM IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY, (ALESSANDRA BUONFINO), Wilensky Harold L., RICH DEMOCRACIES: political economy, public policy, and performance, (LORI THORLAKSON), Glodstone Jack A. (ed.), STATES, PARTIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, (JEFFREY ROBERTS), Ibarra Pedro (ed.), SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND DEMOCRACY, (SUJAY GHOSH), Stasavage David, PUBLIC DEBT AND THE BIRTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE: FRANCE & GREAT BRITAIN, 1688–1789, (AGUSTÍN JOSÉ MENÉNDEZ), Walker Robert and Wiseman Michael (eds), THE WELFARE WE WANT? The British challenge for American reform, (EDWIN GRIGGS), Merkl Peter H. and Weinberg Leonard (eds), RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, (KARIN A. BOTTOM), Dobrowolsky Alexandra and Hart Vivien (eds), WOMEN MAKING CONSTITUTIONS: new politics and comparative perspectives, (JOHANNA KANTOLA), Puri Jyoti, ENCOUNTERING NATIONALISM, (JORGEN KUHL), Mahoney James and Rueschemeyer Dietrich (eds), COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, (HANS PETER OLSEN), Thompson Mark R., DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS: Asia and Eastern Europe, (SEÁN HANLEY), Pickerill Jenny, CYBERPROTEST: environmental activism online, (LEE SALTER), Schweickart David, AFTER CAPITALISM, (BOB JESSOP), Coates David (ed.), MODELS OF CAPITALISM: debating strengths and weaknesses, (BOB JESSOP), Minow Martha (ed.), BREAKING THE CYCLES OF HATRED: memory, law, and repair, (STEPHEN WINTER), [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Immigration has always been at the heart of controversy in the history of human societies and, most recently, in the history of nation-states. The aim of this article is, first, to help get to the heart of the "problem" of mass migration in Europe by investigating how the "politicization" of migration is created at the national level and discussing the mutually conditioning relationships between public opinion, mass media, identity politics and fear in the evolution of immigration policy discourse in the Member States of the European Union (emphasis on the UK and Italy). Secondly, the article questions how and why the conceptualization of migration as a security concern has become dominant in European countries and whether there has been a shift between the way immigration is addressed in Member States' policies and the way the European Union is now confronting the issue (post-Amsterdam treaty). Is the European Union approaching immigration with a "new vision"? Adopting a discourse-theoretical approach, the article argues that the inevitability of the politicization of immigration derives from the inescapable contradiction between democratic equality and plurality and that the discourse type of securitization of migration has emerged as the hegemonic discourse in the Member States, produced by the interplay of publics, media and governments and aimed at the preservation of existing power structures and socio-political boundaries. The article then concludes that the national discourse on immigration as a security concern is reflected and re-adopted (but carefully re-articulated) by the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the issues related international relations in the context of law and politics and published in the July 2004 issue of the periodical "Cambridge Review of International Affairs." Argument on the theory and praxis of international relations between the political and scholarly; Sentiments in international law, U.S. government policy, and the European Union integration; Benefit of seeing many different approaches and academic interests in papers submitted to the journal.

Editorial. Focuses on the publication of various political developments in the October 2003 issue of the journal "Cambridge Review of International Affairs." Foreign policies adopted by the U.S. in 2003; Strengths and weaknesses of democratic institutions published in the journal; Views of political scientist David Runciman on the powers of international law.

Comments on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S., and its impact on international affairs. U.S. government's experimentation with different foreign policy goals, shifting from containment to pre-emption, from War on Terror to military export of democracy; Significant challenges facing the study of international relations after September 11, 2001.