Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Epidural neuroplasty versus physiotherapy to relieve pain in patients with sciatica: a prospective randomized blinded clinical trial.
Epidural neuroplasty seems to be one of the promising minimally invasive techniques for adhesiolysis in patients with chronic sciatica with or without low back pain. However, because no data exist from randomized studies the aim was to investigate whether this procedure is superior to conservative treatment with physiotherapy. ⋯ Epidural neuroplasty results in significant alleviation of pain and functional disability in patients with chronic low back pain and sciatica based on disc protrusion/prolapse or failed back surgery on a short-term basis as well as at 12 months of follow-up.
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A few studies have reported the relation between the atlantoaxial (C1/2) angle and cervical alignment (C2-C7) angle after a Magerl and Brooks (M&B) surgical procedure to treat atlantoaxial subluxation (AAS) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, no study has examined an optimum preoperative C1/2 angle reduction. We aimed to assess the relation between the C1/2 angle reduction and the C2-C7 angle change in patients with progressive RA who underwent the M&B procedure. ⋯ Surgeons performing the M&B procedure need to select patients carefully and avoid complete or overreduction of the C1/2 angle to prevent serious postoperative SAS and myelopathy.
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Cervical extension is considered a risk factor for provoking radicular and spinal cord compromise. However, there have been no reports on the relation between extension strain (ES) and cervical spine disorders: degenerative cervical spine disorders, dynamic canal stenosis (DCS), and cervical myelopathy. We performed a cross-sectional study to investigate the relation. ⋯ These findings suggested that ES of the cervical spine is a risk factor for degenerative cervical spine disorders, and DCS and the aging process are risk factors for cervical myelopathy.
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The Quick Disability of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (QuickDASH) questionnaire is a region-specific, self-administered questionnaire, which consists of a disability/symptom (QuickDASH-DS) scale, and the same two optional modules, the work (DASH-W) and the sport/music (DASH-SM) modules, as the DASH. After the Japanese version of DASH (DASH-JSSH) was cross-culturally adapted and developed, we made the Japanese version of QuickDASH (QuickDASH-JSSH) by extracting 11 out of 30 items of the DASH-JSSH regarding disability/symptoms. The purpose of this study was to test the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of QuickDASH-JSSH. ⋯ The Japanese version of QuickDASH has equivalent evaluation capacities to the original QuickDASH.
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Serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been used for quantitative estimation of the surgical magnitude of major cardiac and thoracoabdominal surgery, but there have been few studies assessing IL-6 as a marker of surgical magnitude of spinal surgery. ⋯ Serum IL-6 on the first day varied depending on the surgical procedure used. Therefore, it might be a quantitative marker of surgical magnitude following spinal surgery.