OBJECTIVES The job of firefighting can cause lumbar burden and low back pain. This study aimed to identify the association between age and lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration and whether the association differs between field and administrative (non-field) firefighters. METHODS Subjects were selected using a stratified random sampling method. Firefighters were stratified by geographic area...

Degenerative disc disease and disc bulge in the lumbar spine are common sources of lower back pain. Little is known regarding disc bulge migration and lumbar segmental mobility as the lumbar spine moves from flexion to extension. In this study, 329 symptomatic (low back pain with or without neurological symptoms) patients with an average age of 43.5 years with varying degrees of disc degenerati...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a nationwide private insurance database. Chi-square analysis and linear regression models were utilized for outcome measures. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between lumbar degenerative disc disease, diabetes, obesity and smoking tobacco. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Diabetes, obesity, and smoking tobacco are comorbid co...

BACKGROUND Image guided spinal injections are successfully used in the management of low back pain and sciatica. The main benefit of CT-guided injections is the safe, fast and precise needle placement, but the radiation exposure remains a serious concern. The purpose of the study was to test a new institutional low-dose protocol for CT-guided periradicular injections in lumbar spine to reduce r...

background: intervertebral disc herniation has two common types, extrusion and protrusion, which may affect the adjacent vertebrae.in addition, it is associated with significant signal changes in t1 mri (short tr/te) and t2 mri (long tr/te).   methods: the present study is a cross-sectional analytic one, in which sampling was performed retrospectively. cases were randomly selected from the pati...

background :the incidence of recurrence in patients undergoing primary discectomy due to lumbar disc herniation (ldh), is regularly reported as 5-15%. in this study we aimed to evaluate surgical outcome of instrumented transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (tlif) in the patients suffering from recurrent ldh.   methods : we retrospectively studied 51 patients (30 female, 21 male) from august 20...

BACKGROUND Previous studies mostly did not separate between symptomatic disc herniation combined with osteochondrosis/spondylosis of the lumbar spine and symptomatic disc herniation in radiographically normal intervertebral spaces. This may at least in part explain the differences in the observed risk patterns. AIMS To investigate the possible aetiological relevance of physical and psychosoci...

[Purpose] To present the outcome of a patient, having sciatica and MRI-verified disc herniation/sequestration who underwent Chiropractic BioPhysics® (CBP®) protocol designed to improve the lumbar lordosis. [Subject and Methods] A 56-year-old male suffered from chronic low back pain and recent sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation despite being under continuous care from three previous chiropra...