Introduction Rodents have been widely used as the animal model of various human diseases and injuries. With the readily achievable gene manipulation, transgenic mice have been employed to study diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, or spinal cord injury (1). For the in vivo examination of degenerative disease, MRI has been extensively used in human patients and animal...

Several diseases that can lead to an acute spinal cord lesion were investigated. Demyelinating diseases were excluded by normal cranial MRI and normal CSF examination. Infection myelitis was excluded by the normal CSF examination and negative serologies. Spinal cord compression and tumors were excluded by the spinal MRI. Also, the spinal MRI was consistent with infarct diagnosis. Several etiolo...

AIM Minimally invasive surgery is currently a goal for surgical intervention in the spine. The effectiveness of endoscopic thoracic spine surgery and technological improvements are two factors that are always under consideration in the practice of spinal surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS We present twenty-five patients whose thoracoscopic spinal surgeries were performed between 2002 and 2008 for ...

OBJECTIVE Life expectancy for humans has increased dramatically and with this there has been a considerable increase in the number of patients suffering from lumbar spine disease. Symptomatic lumbar spinal disease should be treated, even in the elderly, and surgical procedures such as fusion surgery are needed for moderate to severe lumbar spinal disease. However, various perioperative complica...

ABSTRACT Neuromuscular taping or kinesiotaping is a technique widely used in spinal disorders. However, the scientific evidence of its use discopathies and degenerative spine pathology unknown. This study aimed to analyze published clinical trials on neuromuscular subjects with injuries. For this purpose, literature search was performed following PRISMA guidelines databases: PubMed, Web Science...

Methods 502 were stratified by sex and age in Ciudadela Colsubsidio School in Bogotá, to evaluate anterior spinal flexion by shobert test. Measurements were repeated three times by child, mean was calculated for analysis. Children with spinal and chronic diseases were excluded. Means and standard deviations for shobert test were calculated for each group. ANOVA with sex and age as between-subje...