background studies show that a large proportion of healthcare offered may be inappropriate or unnecessary. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a new and expensive diagnostic technology which has been increasingly used all over the world. moreover, this trend has been more rapidly increasing in iran. low back pain is a common disorder all over the world and mri technique is one of the several wa...

Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) is a minimally invasive technique to treat lumbar disk herniation from a lateral approach. Performed under local anesthesia, the incision size for PTED is around 8 mm with no paraspinal muscle cutting or detachment from their insertion. PTED has been associated with less blood loss, faster rehabilitation, and less scarring of tissue than ...

Materials and methods Thirty-five girls with AIS double major (mean Cobb’s angle – Th=27o±7,5; L=24o±5,6) were divided for two randomized groups. In group A was applied only standard DoboMed [1]. In-group A-plus was applied triple method (DoboMed + OMT Kaltenborn-Evjenth + Dynamic Brace System – Meditrac). The derotation manual therapy techniques and Meditrac were used in DoboMed preparation ph...

Minimally invasive spine surgery has been on the rise in the last decade, providing the auditorium of spine surgeons with state of the art solutions to common clinical situations. Avoiding extensive soft tissue injury in miniopen Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) resulted in measurable clinical benefits like decrease of blood loss, less pain and faster rehabilitation postoperatively...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to establish normative values for active lumbar movement in children five, seven, nine, and 11 years of age. METHODS End range active flexion, extension, and right- and left-side bending and rotation of the lumbar spine were measured for 225 normally developing children (116 girls, 109 boys) using the Back Range of Motion (BROM II) device. Means were dete...

Spine surgery has been increased as the population ages, but the occurrence of unusual complication such as remote cerebellar hemorrhage (RCH) is not well understood. We recently experienced a case of RCH in a 60-year-old woman showed neurologic dysfunction after degenerative lumbar spine surgery. There was no definite dural tearing and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) loss during operation. Brain mag...

The link between static and dynamic landing lumbar postures, when gymnasts are exposed to large ground reaction forces, has not been established. This investigation aimed to (a) determine if a relationship exists between sagittal static and dynamic landing lumbar spine angles at peak ground reaction force (GRF) and (b) quantify how close to end-range postures the gymnasts were at landing peak G...

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OBJECTIVE The relationship between OA and osteoporosis has exhibited contradictory features over the past four decades. The aim of this study was to determine using separate analysis of the radiographic features of OA whether various radiographic features of OA were associated differently with BMD in the Korean elderly. METHODS Data were derived from the Dong-gu cohort; 2354 subjects were enr...

BACKGROUND Kidney dysfunction and albuminuria may be associated with BMD. However, little evidence has been reported on relationships between BMD and eGFR and albuminuria. METHODS A total of 8,992 subjects aged 50 years or older participated in a survey conducted. Participants had their lumbar spine and femoral neck BMD measured by a Lunar Prodigy bone densitometer (GE, Madison, WI). Kidney f...