Study Design Retrospective reliability and validity study. Objective To validate a recently translated Russian language version of the Oswestry Disability Index (R-ODI) using standardized methods detailed from previous validations in other languages. Methods We included all subjects who were seen in our spine surgery clinic, over the age of 18, and fluent in the Russian language. R-ODI was tran...

STUDY DESIGN Multicenter, prospective, longitudinal cohort study. OBJECTIVES To investigate the minimum important difference (MID) of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS), 4 region-specific outcome measures, and the numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) across 3 levels of patient-perceived global rating of change in a clinical setting. BACKGROUND The MID varies depending on the external ...

The authors identified patients with an increase in their Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) score after lumbar spine fusion to evaluate whether this is a plausible definition of deterioration and to determine whether any common patient characteristics exist.A total of 1054 patients who underwent lumbar spinal fusion and had 2-year follow-up data, including the Short Form 36, the ODI, and numeric ...

Abstract Background Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is broadly used in clinical and research settings for assessing the disability level patients with lumbar radiculopathy but it has not been translated into Urdu language according to pre-established translation guidelines as well validity reliability of ODI version tested yet. The aim this study was translate native (ODI-U) recommended measure...

BACKGROUND The Timed Up and Go Test (TUG Test) has previously been described as a reliable tool to evaluate objective functional impairment in patients with degenerative disc disease. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) of the TUG Test. METHODS The TUG Test (measured in seconds) was correlated with validated patient-reported outco...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effectiveness of routine physiotherapy compared with an assessment session and advice from a physiotherapist for patients with low back pain. DESIGN Pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. SETTING Seven British NHS physiotherapy departments. PARTICIPANTS 286 patients with low back pain of more than six weeks' duration. INTERVENTION Routine physiothe...