Articles: back-pain.
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Whether availability of chiropractic care affects use of primary care physician (PCP) services is unknown. ⋯ Greater availability of chiropractic care in some areas may be offsetting PCP services for back and/or neck pain among older adults.
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Diagn Interv Radiol · Jul 2015
Increased 99mTc MDP activity in the costovertebral and costotransverse joints on SPECT-CT: is it predictive of associated back pain or response to percutaneous treatment?
Pain related to costovertebral and costotransverse joints is likely an underrecognized and potentially important cause of thoracic back pain. On combined single-photon emission computed tomography and computed tomography (SPECT-CT), increased technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate (99mTc MDP) activity at these articulations is not uncommon. We evaluated whether this activity corresponds with thoracic back pain and whether it predicts response to percutaneous injection. ⋯ The findings suggest that increased activity in costovertebral and costotransverse joints on 99mTc MDP SPECT-CT is only variably associated with the presence and location of thoracic back pain; it does not predict pain response to percutaneous injection.
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In Infobox 1 (Excluded with reason), p. 9, two reference numbers are missing. Item 2 (Gordon et al.): [34] Item 4 (Yarlas et al.): All data published by [39]
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J Spinal Disord Tech · Jun 2015
Vertebral End Plate Perforation for Intervertebral Disc Height Preservation After Single Level Lumbar Discectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Pilot single-centre, stratified, prospective, randomized, double-blinded, parallel-group, controlled study. ⋯ The present study showed positive correlation between the volume of removed disc tissue and decrease in postoperative ISV and ISH. There were no statistically significant differences in ISV and ISH between the group with end-plate perforation and the control group six months after lumbar discectomy. Clinical outcome and disability were significantly improved in both groups three and six months after surgery.
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Case Reports
Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor, Diffuse Type/Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis in a Pars Defect: A Case Report.
Case report. ⋯ N/A.