BACKGROUND Facet tropism is the angular asymmetry between the left and right facet joint orientation. Although debatable, facet tropism was suggested to be associated with disc degeneration, facet degeneration and degenerative spondylolisthesis in the lumbar spine. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between facet tropism and facet degeneration in the sub-axial cervical sp...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship of mindfulness and cognitive emotion regulation strategies and mediating role of alexithymia in this relationship. Method: In this descriptive-correlational study, 355 students (192 femalesand 163 males) were recruited from ShahidBahonar university of Kerman through randomclustered ...

Facet-based sentiment analysis involves discovering the latent facets, sentiments and their associations. Traditional facet-based sentiment analysis algorithms typically perform the various tasks in sequence, and fail to take advantage of the mutual reinforcement of the tasks. Additionally, inferring sentiment levels typically requires domain knowledge or human intervention. In this paper, we p...

STUDY DESIGN Radiologic imaging measurement study. PURPOSE To assess the accuracy of detecting lateral mass and facet joint injuries of the subaxial cervical spine on plain radiographs using computed tomography (CT) scan images as a reference standard; and the integrity of morphological landmarks of the lateral mass and facet joints of the subaxial cervical spine. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Inj...

gravitational search algorithm (gsa) is one of the newest swarm based optimization algorithms, which has been inspired by the newtonian laws of gravity and motion. gsa has empirically shown to be an efficient and robust stochastic search algorithm. since introducing gsa a convergence analysis of this algorithm has not yet been developed. this paper introduces the first attempt to a formal conve...

CONTEXT Facet or zygapophysial joint blocks are used extensively in the evaluation of chronic spinal pain. However, there is a continuing debate about the value and validity of facet joint blocks in the diagnosis of chronic spinal pain. The value of diagnostic facet joint injections may have been overlooked in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES To determine the accuracy of facet joint blocks ...

BACKGROUND The purpose was to explore possible risk factors of facet joint violation induced by adjacent superior vertebral pedicle screw during the minimally invasive surgery transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF). METHODS A total of 69 patients with lumbar degenerative disease, who underwent MIS-TLIF were retrospectively reviewed. Postoperative computed tomography images were use...

STUDY DESIGN An anatomic study of facet angle orientation and morphology of the lumbar spine was performed. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine how age, gender, race, and pelvic incidence (PI) correlate with facet orientation in the lumbar spine. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Lumbar facet orientation has important implications in the development of numerous pathologies of the spin...