Spine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Elastic Lumbar Support versus Rigid Thoracolumbar Orthosis for Acute Pediatric Spondylolysis. A Prospective Controlled Study.
A prospective study on clinical, radiographic, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes in children with acute spondylolysis treated with a rigid thoracolumbar orthosis or with an elastic lumbar support. ⋯ 2.
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Retrospective cross-sectional analysis. ⋯ Subjects with hypercholesterolemia were 54% more likely to have neck pain after controlling for confounders. This suggests that hypercholesterolemia has a role to play in degeneration of the cervical spine. Therefore, prevention and proper management of high cholesterol may curtail the development and progression of degenerative cervical disk disease and thus, neck pain.
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Retrospective study of data collected prospectively. ⋯ Predicting bone health status in ASR patients is possible with an ML approach. Additionally, data mining using ML can find unrecognized risk factors for bone health in ASR surgery patients.
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In vitro study. ⋯ 3.
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A case-control association study. ⋯ Level III.