To determine the effect of planned two-stage surgery using lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) on perioperative complication rate following corrective in patients with kyphoscoliosis. Consecutive degenerative scoliosis who underwent were divided into a control group that single-stage posterior-only and two-staged LLIF posterior fusion. We collected patient background surgical data assessed r...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective study of 131 patients and volunteers recruited for an analysis of spinal alignment and gravity line (GL) assessment by force plate analysis. OBJECTIVE To determine relationships between GL, foot position, and spinopelvic landmarks in subjects with varying sagittal alignment. Additionally, the study sought to analyze the role of the pelvis in the maintenance of GL posi...

The relationship between spinal sagittal alignment and pelvic parameters is well known in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. However, few studies have reported the sagittal spinopelvic relationship after selective posterior fusion of thoracolumbar/lumbar (TL/L) curves. We evaluated the relationship between spinal sagittal alignment and the pelvis, and analyzed how the pelvic sagittal state is adj...

Introduction: Sagittal spinopelvic alignment has been shown to affect loads at the intervertebral joints and has been linked to spine health. Furthermore, the link between degenerative changes and loading of the IVD seems evident with pathophysiological loading widely thought to detrimentally affect the intervertebral disc. If changes in lumbosacral anatomy and kinematics are induced by lumbar ...