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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Multicenter Study
Patient Reported Data as Predictors of Surgical Outcome in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. Analysis of a National Multicenter Dataset.
Retrospective study design on prospectively collected registry data. ⋯ III.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy Versus Microendoscopic Discectomy for Lumbar Disc Herniation: 5-year Long-term Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
A prospective randomized controlled study. ⋯ Over the five-year follow-up period, PTED and MED were both efficacious in the treatment of LDH. The long-term clinical outcomes and recurrent rates were comparable between the treatment groups. PTED represents a more minimally invasive technique with the advantages of rapid recovery.
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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.