Articles: back-pain.
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To determine the most cited articles and most published authors in Spine Journal from 1990-2009. ⋯ Spine Journal and its authors have a clear impact on the scientific community based on this review of the top articles and authors in the last 20 years.
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Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare aggressive variant of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. ⋯ We report the case of an aggressive PBL presenting as acute spinal cord compression requiring urgent surgical intervention, on a background of undiagnosed HIV infection.
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Control of trunk movement relies on the integration between central neuronal circuits and peripheral skeletomuscular activities and it can be altered by pain. There is increasing evidence that there are deficits within the central nervous system controlling the trunk muscles in people with low back pain (LBP). However, it is unclear how LBP impacts upon neural drive to back muscles at different levels of voluntary contraction. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate if neural drive is impaired in these patients. ⋯ A decline of central neural drive to the back muscles at high level of voluntary contraction was observed in patients with LBP. These results suggest that it might be pertinent to include neuromuscular facilitation programmes and therapeutic exercise utilizing high voluntary contractions for patients with LBP.