... relation between lumbar puncture and herniation strongly suggests that a lumbar puncture may cause herniation in some patients, and normal results on CT not mean that it is safe to a lumbar puncture ... headache 15 vs 2%; all headaches 39 vs 21%; backaches 42 vs 23%) Prophylactic bed rest following lumbar puncture in children and adolescents is of no benefit and may actually be disad...
... Manchikanti L, Manchikanti KN, Manchukonda R, et al Evaluation of lumbar facet joint nerve blocks in the management of chronic low back pain: A preliminary report of a randomized, double-blind controlled ... 20: 539-45 Schwarzer AC, Wang SC, Bogduk N, et al Prevalence and clinical features of lumbar zygapophysial joint pain: A study in an Austra...
... quality of life of patients undergoing lumbar spinal surgery Loyola University Chicago; 2006:1-340 Saban KL, Penckofer SM: Patient expectations of quality of life following lumbar spinal surgery ... t-tests, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to describe and compare differences between the preoperative and postoperative variables Multivariate analysis of...
... training, nursing aides (including assistant nurses) with at least a one-year nursing training without examination, and nursing auxiliaries with less or no formal nursing training 41 occupational ... have examined the prevalence of orthopaedic findings in the back and of the lumbar load for care activities in a group of 1390 health care workers in 86 nur...
... quantitatively the load on the lumbar spine for typical manual patient handlings (e.g raising a patient from a lying position to a sitting posture in bed) and to derive characteristic values of lumbar load ... of the study introduced here was to examine the load of the lumbar spine occurring with manual patient handlings to enable a scientifically...
... high risk of osteoporosis by OSTA index Table was the fourfold table of OSTA in assessing risk of osteoporosis comparing with LS BMD according to various cutoffs Performance of OSTA risk index ... Chinese women of Han nationality in Sichuan province were assessed by OSTA index and the usefulness of OSTA was evaluated to predict osteoporosis in compari...
... Epstein NE: Lumbar laminectomy for resection of lumbar synovial cysts: an outcome study Spine 2004, 29:1049-1056 Pirotte B, Gabrovsky N, Massager N, Levivier M, David P: Synovial cysts of the lumbar ... Symptomatic intraspinal synovial cysts: percutaneous injection Am J Roent 1987, 149:105-107 Shah RV, Lutz GE: Lumbar intraspinal synovial cysts:conservative managem...
... median line This system is com- Tadpole1 Figure tation system ; hook-and-rod system of spinal instrumenTadpole system ; hook-and-rod system of spinal instrumentation Tadpole2 Figure system positioned ... the Tadpole system , the results of a biomechanical study and the short-term outcome of a clinical study Tadpole system Overview The Tadpole system is used in spinal...
... extrinsic factors including those involved in the actual readings of the MRI) results in a less than satisfactory delineation between containment and non-containment of herniated lumbar discs In ... studies evaluating the accuracy of MRI in the detection of lumbar disc containment have been insufficient While MRI has been shown sensitive and specific for...
... Visual Analogue Scale pre and postoperatively Visual Analogue Scale pre and postoperatively tages of this technique include less paraspinal musculature trauma and smaller wounds Bone removal is ... preoperative and month and years postoperative NASS and VAS scores There was significant improvement in the NASS scores for back disability and neurogenic symptoms and the VAS sco...
... and treatment Report of cases Surg Neurol 2006, 65:38 5-3 90 doi:10.1186/174 9-7 99X- 5-1 4 Cite this article as: Freedman et al.: Diagnostic challenge: bilateral infected lumbar facet cysts - a rare ... a rare cause of acute lumbar spinal stenosis and back pain Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010 5:14 Submit your next manus...
... The unilateral transforaminal approach for posterior lumbar interbody fusion Orthop Traumatol 1998, 6:88-99 12 Lowe TG, Tahernia , O’Brien MF, Smith DA: Unilateral transforaminal posterior lumbar ... doi:10.1186/1749-799X-5-86 Cite this article as: Chang et al.: Evaluation of unilateral cageinstrumented fixation for lumbar spine Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Resea...