THU0403 THE EFFECT OF SPINAL STABILIZATION EXERCISES ON SPINAL CURVES DIAGNOSED WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS

Spinal pseudoarthrosis: a complication of ankylosing spondylitis.

Fracture of the cervical spine is a recognized complication of advanced ankylosing spondylitis ( 1 ). Such fractures occur after relatively minor trauma and may appear t o be spontaneous. They are characteristically seen long after the cervical apophyseal joints have fused and vertebral osteoporosis has developed. This complication is consistent with the mechanically unstable situation that dev...

Effect of spinal stabilization exercises to reduce urinary incontinence in the elderly

Urinary incontinence has an increasing process among aged women and its statistics in women in The Home for the Elderly is more than others. The purpose of this study is to investigate effect of 4 weeks Spinal Stabilization exercises on urinary incontinence of the elderly people. In this study, participants are elderly women from age of 50 to 70 years old (67±11kg and BMI of 27±4kg/m2), who wer...

[Treatment of spinal fracture in ankylosing spondylitis].

Clinical guidelines for the treatment of vertebral fractures associated with ankylosing spondylitis are derived from case reports and a review of literature. The coincidence of paravertebral calcifications and fracture formations leads to problems in the establishment of a proper initial diagnosis. Therefore computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have to be employed to define the ex...

Surgical Treatment After Spinal Trauma in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Surgical outcome after spinal fractures in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

BACKGROUND Ankylosing spondylitis is a rheumatic disease in which spinal and sacroiliac joints are mainly affected. There is a gradual bone formation in the spinal ligaments and ankylosis of the spinal diarthroses which lead to stiffness of the spine.The diffuse paraspinal ossification and inflammatory osteitis of advanced Ankylosing spondylitis creates a fused, brittle spine that is susceptibl...