Articles: back-pain.
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Establishment of immortalized cell lines derived from rat intervertebral disc cells by Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, Y-27632. ⋯ N/A.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the association between smoking and stress with nonpersistent and persistent back pain. ⋯ This study further substantiates the findings of prior research that describes a significant relationship between back pain, stress, and smoking. Understanding the role of modifiable risk factors (ie, smoking and stress) and their impact on back pain provides an opportunity to offer a comprehensive and tailored treatment plan.
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Our purpose was to analyse the presentation, management and clinical outcome of patients treated operatively and non-operatively for Copenhagen Disease (CD). ⋯ CD is likely to remain stable with time or slightly improve after treatment according to functional outcomes tests. Progression of the kyphosis can be halted at different degrees with operative and non-operative treatments although it does not correlate with changes in symptomatology.
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J Spinal Disord Tech · Mar 2016
Radiographic Restoration of Sagittal Spinopelvic Alignment After Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion in Degenerative Spondylolisthesis.
A retrospective study. ⋯ Surgical correction of degenerative spondylolisthesis with posterior lumbar interbody fusion and posterior instrumentation resulted in relief of back pain, which may be associated with improvement of sagittal spinopelvic alignment. Surgeons should consider deformity parameters, especially the SA, in the surgical treatment of degenerative spondylolisthesis.
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The prognostic ability of the STarT Back Tool (SBT) reportedly varies, but the factors affecting this are unclear. This study investigated the influences of care setting (chiropractic, GP, physiotherapy, spine centre), episode duration (0-2, 3-4, 4-12, >12 weeks), and outcome time period (3, 6, 12 months) on SBT prognostic ability. ⋯ These results indicate that the prognostic ability of the SBT in these non-stratified care settings was unaffected by care setting on its own. However, the prognosis of patients is affected by diverse clinical characteristics that differ between patient populations, many of which are not assessed by the SBT. When controlling for some of those factors and testing potential interactions, the results showed that only episode duration affected the SBT prognostic ability and, specifically, that the SBT was less predictive in very acute patients (<2 weeks duration).