Instrumented lumbar fusion can provide immediate stability and assist in satisfactory arthrodesis in patients who have pain or instability of the lumbar spine. Lumbar adjunctive fusion with decompression is often a good procedure for surgical management of degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS). Among various lumbar fusion techniques, lumbar interbody fusion (LIF) has an advantage in that it maint...

BACKGROUND Results showed good clinical outcomes of anterior corpectomy and fusion (ACCF) for patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) during a short term follow-up; however, studies assessing long term results are relatively scarce. In this study we intended to assess the long term clinical and radiographic outcomes, find out the factors that may affect the long term clinical outcom...

There is little scientific evidence regarding the cumulative effect of purposeful heading. The head-neck-torso alignment considered to be great importance when it comes minimizing potential risks Therefore, this study determined relationship between (cervical spine, head, thoracic spine) and acceleration head maximum ball speed after impact differences accelerations throughout different heading...

Background: Cervicogenic headache is a secondary headache, which means that it caused by another illness or physical issue. In case of cervicogenic the cause disorder cervical spine and its soft tissue elements disc. Aim: To determine neck ability to perform activities daily livings associated mobile phone usage. Methodology: This descriptive study was done among 355 participants from different...

Accurate prediction of protein secondary structure is essential for accurate sequence alignment, three-dimensional structure modeling, and function prediction. The accuracy of ab initio secondary structure prediction from sequence, however, has only increased from around 77 to 80% over the past decade. Here, we developed a multistep neural-network algorithm by coupling secondary structure predi...

Objectives: An increase in anterior pelvic tilt is often assumed to result from short hip flexor muscles. Such altered postural alignment may the stress on lumbar spine and has been shown be a characteristic of specific low back pain populations. However, there minimal research investigating link between muscle length inclination/lumbar lordosis relaxed standing. Therefore, this study sought un...

Introduction: We have previously reported the modified K-line (mK-line), which was defined as a line connecting the midpoints of the spinal cord at C2 and C7 on T1 weighted sagittal MRI, can predict postoperative insufficient decompression in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) who underwent laminoplasty. Although it is very important for spine surgeons to predict postoperative ...