STUDY DESIGN Cross sectional study. PURPOSE To evaluate characteristics of back muscle strength in patients scheduled for lumbar fusion surgery. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Little is known regarding muscle strength in patients with symptomatic lumbar degenerative diseases who require fusion surgery. METHODS Consecutive 354 patients scheduled for posterior lumbar interbody fusion due to symptom...

To introduce a new designed suture technique in annular repair under the microendoscopic discectomy (MED) surgery and to evaluate the clinical application of the technique in annular repair under MED with at least 2-year follow-up period.A new method of annular repair was designed and named "jetting suture" technique. Thirty consecutive patients with lumbar disc herniation were enrolled in the ...

OBJECT To evaluate the clinical efficacy and feasibility of single-stage posterior debridement, interbody fusion and posterior instrumentation for the treatment of lumbar tuberculosis in the aged and to discuss the surgical strategies of this intervention. METHODS From January 2006 to January 2012, 28 elderly patients who suffered from lumbar tuberculosis underwent one-stage posterior debride...

AIM To investigate physical activity level in patients with chronic low back and neck pain. MATERIAL AND METHODS 32 preoperative patients, 32 outpatients with low back or neck pain and 32 healthy controls were included in study. The physical activity level of the participants was evaluated with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. The Oswestry Disability Index an...

Study Design Randomized controlled trial. Objective Despite a large number of publications of outcomes after spinal fusion surgery, there is still no consensus on the efficacy of the several different fusion methods. The aim of this study was to determine whether transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) results in an improved clinical outcome compared with uninstrumented posterolateral fus...

Purpose: Neck pain (NP), low back (LBP) and related disability status in patients with COVID-19 have been not known yet. Therefore, mild was investigated current study.
 Methods: Patients mild-COVID-19 (n=45, 40.64±17.18 yr) were included study. Pain perception (Numeric Rating Scale) (Neck Disability Index (NDI), Oswestry (ODI)) evaluated remotely on the online forms at pre-COVID-19, isola...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether surgical treatment delayed for more than 48 hours in patients with cauda equina syndrome (CES) influenced the clinical outcome. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study of 18 patients treated in our hospital from March 2000 to January 2012, after presenting with CES. The pre- and post-operative clinical status was determined: existence of back pain and/or scia...

This study was designed to observe the clinical outcome of anterior versus posterior instrumentation in the treatment of Pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis of the lumbar spine. Twenty-three patients underwent either anterior (anterior fixation group) or posterior fixation (posterior fixation group) combined with a single-stage anterior radical debridement and had an average follow-up of 38 months...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the functional status of patients with low back pain and the perceived importance of pain-related everyday functions assessed in the Oswestry Disability Index. DESIGN The sample was based on 219 successive adult patients with low back pain referred to a tertiary clinic. PATIENTS A total of 168 patients (76.6%) particip...