The many unanswered questions surrounding ADR beget the question of whether patients would ultimately be better managed with lumbar fusion surgery or even no surgery at all. Lumbar fusion technology has made advances in recent years with the advent of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and the use of bone morphogenetic proteins. With a TLIF procedure, spine surgeons are able to obtai...

The study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of posterior-only approach combining with puncture drainage under CT-guide in staged treatment of thoracic and lumbar spinal tuberculosis with flow injection abscess. We retrospectively analyzed 15 patients (came from 72 cases with thoracic and lumbar spinal tuberculosis) with flow injection abscesses underwent surgery from January ...

Lumbar spondylolysis, a well known cause of low back pain, usually affects the pars interarticularis of a lower lumbar vertebra and rarely involves the articular processes. We report a rare case of bilateral spondylolysis of inferior articular processes of L4 vertebra that caused spinal canal stenosis with a significant segmental instability at L4/5 and scoliosis. A 31-year-old male who had suf...

BACKGROUND Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) is an effective surgery for lumbar degenerative disease. However, this fusion technique requires resection of inferior facet joint to provide access for superior facet joint resection, which results in reduced lumbar spinal stability and unnecessary trauma. We have previously developed extraforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (ELIF) that ca...

Transforaminal interbody fusion, or TLIF, utilizes a uniportal approach to the lumbar disc that involves removing one facet joint and accessing the disc through the intervertebral foramen (Figure 1). This approach to fusion was first discussed in the journal Spine in 2001, and has garnered increased acceptance as a less invasive approach to spinal fusion in the last few years, growing to an est...

A major sequelae of lumbar fusion is acceleration of adjacent-level degeneration due to decreased lumbar lordosis. We evaluated the effectiveness of 4 common fusion techniques in restoring lordosis: instrumented posterolateral fusion, translumbar interbody fusion, anteroposterior fusion with posterior instrumentation, and anterior interbody fusion with lordotic threaded (LT) cages (Medtronic So...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is an inheritable bone disorder characterized by osseous fragility and ligamentous laxity. It is sometimes difficult to obtain bone union in patients with OI. The purpose of this report is to present a rare case of posttraumatic kyphosis due to a L1 burst fracture in a patient with OI, and to discuss how to treat it to achieve an adequate correction and circumferent...

BACKGROUND Spinal fusion and decompression surgery of the lumbar spine are common procedures for problems such as disc herniations. Various studies for postoperative interventions have been conducted; however, no massage therapy studies have been completed. PURPOSE The objective of this study is to determine if massage therapy can beneficially treat pain and dysfunction associated with lumbar...

Over the last decades segmental spinal fusion has become the standard surgical procedure for lumbar degenerative spondyloarthropathy [1]. Its evolution towards the most modern instrumentation techniques has achieved a very high percentage of success in spinal fusion in the lumbar region [2]. This varies between 72 and 91%, depending on the technique used. But the success of lumbar fusion has be...