INTRODUCTION Gynoid lipodystrophy (cellulite) has been cited as a common dermatological alteration. It occurs mainly in adult women and tends to gather around the thighs and buttocks. Its presence and severity have been related to many factors, including biotype, age, sex, circulatory changes, and, as some authors have suggested, mechanical alterations such as lumbar hyperlordosis. OBJECTIVE ...

Background: Decompression and fusion with autograft is the gold standard technique in the treatment of narrowing of the cervical canal. Using polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cages or nonabsorbable polymer boxes with elasticity similar to bone, radiolucent, and the same degree of fusion reduces morbidity. methods: We carried out a prospective, longitudinal, deliberate intervention case series with e...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that restoring the lumbar lordosis will increase a patient's voluntary muscular strength and decrease back pain symptoms. CLINICAL FEATURES A patient was diagnosed with mechanical low back pain. The initial radiographic study revealed a loss of the lumbar lordosis. The patient determined his maximum bench press prior to the treatment program. The treatment out...

Subchondral insufficiency fracture (SIF) of the femoral head occurs in the elderly and recipients of organ transplantation. Osteoporosis and deficient lateral coverage of the acetabulum are known risk factors for SIF. There has been no study about relation between spinopelvic alignment and anterior acetabular coverage with SIF. We therefore asked whether a decrease of lumbar lordosis and a defi...

Inconclusive findings have been shown in previous studies comparing lumbar range of movement (LROM) and lumbar lordosis between back pain patients and healthy subjects. In these studies, confounding variables such as age, gender, height, obesity, and pain level were usually not well controlled. The present study aimed to compare LROM and lumbar lordosis between back pain patients and matched co...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of sitting posture on lung capacity and expiratory flow (LC-EF) and lumbar lordosis. DESIGN Repeated measures on 1 group of subjects in 4 postures. SETTING Laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Seventy able-bodied volunteers. INTERVENTIONS Postures were assumed randomly: normal, with full ischial support and flat lumbar support; slumped, with the pelvis positioned...

OBJECTIVE To determine if a new method of lumbar extension traction can increase lordosis in chronic low back pain (LBP) subjects with decreased lordosis. DESIGN Nonrandomized controlled trial with follow-up at 3 months and 1(1/2) years. SETTING Primary care spine clinic in Nevada. PATIENTS Beginning in mid-1998, the first 48 consecutive patients, who met the inclusion criteria of chronic...

BACKGROUND A previous study examined the relationship between the sacral inclination angle (SIA), lumbosacral angle (LSA) and sacral horizontal angle (SHA) and spinal mobility in acute low back pain and chronic low back pain patients. We chose to investigate the lumbar lordosis angle, segmental lumbar lordosis angle, SIA, LSA and SHA in acute and chronic low back pain (LBP) patients as well as ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The degree of lumbar lordosis and reduced lumbar mobility are regarded as important clinical features in patients with low back pain, and in lumbar disc herniation A more stiff back preoperatively in a proportion of patients has been shown to be associated with sequestered disc herniation. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether there was any correlation bet...