Issue 7/2007
Content (26 Articles)
Somatic comorbidity and younger age are associated with life dissatisfaction among patients with lumbar spinal stenosis before surgical treatment
Sanna Sinikallio, Timo Aalto, Olavi Airaksinen, Arto Herno, Heikki Kröger, Sakari Savolainen, Veli Turunen, Heimo Viinamäki
Subclassification of low back pain: a cross-country comparison
Evdokia V. Billis, Christopher J. McCarthy, Jacqueline A. Oldham
Effectiveness of conservative treatments for the lumbosacral radicular syndrome: a systematic review
Pim A. J. Luijsterburg, Arianne P. Verhagen, Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo, Ton A. G. van Os, Wilco C. Peul, Bart W. Koes
Physical characteristics of patients with developmental cervical spinal canal stenosis
Yuichi Kasai, Koji Akeda, Atsumasa Uchida
Depression is associated with poorer outcome of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery
Sanna Sinikallio, Timo Aalto, Olavi Airaksinen, Arto Herno, Heikki Kröger, Sakari Savolainen, Veli Turunen, Heimo Viinamäki
Loading is more effective than posture in lumbar spinal stenosis: a study with a treadmill equipment
Hasan Oğuz, Funda Levendoğlu, Tunç Cevat Öğün, Aysenur Tantuğ
Substantial sick-leave costs savings due to a graded activity intervention for workers with non-specific sub-acute low back pain
Hynek Hlobil, Kimi Uegaki, J. Bart Staal, Martine C. de Bruyne, Tjabe Smid, Willem van Mechelen
Relation of inflammatory modic changes to intradiscal steroid injection outcome in chronic low back pain
Fouad Fayad, Marie-Martine Lefevre-Colau, François Rannou, Nathaly Quintero, Alain Nys, Yann Macé, Serge Poiraudeau, Jean Luc Drapé, Michel Revel
Spinal mechanical load: a predictor of persistent low back pain? A prospective cohort study
Eric W. P. Bakker, Arianne P. Verhagen, Cees Lucas, Hans J. C. M. F. Koning, Bart W. Koes
Dermatomal laser-evoked potentials: a diagnostic approach to the dorsal root. Norm data in healthy volunteers and changes in patients with radiculopathy
Markus Quante, Michael Hauck, Melanie Gromoll, Ekkehard Hille, Jürgen Lorenz
Headache in patients with cervical radiculopathy: a prospective study with selective nerve root blocks in 275 patients
Liselott C. G. Persson, Jane Y. Carlsson, Leif Anderberg
Psychosocial stress factors among patients with lumbar disc herniation, scheduled for disc surgery in comparison with patients scheduled for arthroscopic knee surgery
Ann-Christin Johansson, Michael Cornefjord, Leif Bergkvist, John Öhrvik, Steven J. Linton
Quantitative analysis of sensory functions after lumbar discectomy using current perception threshold testing
Kenshi Imoto, Tsuneo Takebayashi, Kunihito Kanaya, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Genichirou Katahira, Toshihiko Yamashita
Is there any relationship between proinflammatory mediator levels in disc material and myelopathy with cervical disc herniation and spondylosis? A non-randomized, prospective clinical study
Mehmet Nusret Demircan, Alparslan Asir, Ahmet Cetinkal, Nursal Gedik, Ahmet Murat Kutlay, Ahmet Çolak, Sedat Kurtar, Hakan Simsek
Morphological changes of cervical facet joints in elderly individuals
A. Kettler, K. Werner, H.-J. Wilke
Lumbar facet anatomy changes in spondylolysis: a comparative skeletal study
Youssef Masharawi, Gali Dar, Smadar Peleg, Nili Steinberg, Dvora Alperovitch-Najenson, Khalil Salame, Israel Hershkovitz
Total lumbar disc replacement in athletes: clinical results, return to sport and athletic performance
Christoph J. Siepe, Karsten Wiechert, Mohamed F. Khattab, Andreas Korge, H. Michael Mayer
Cervical spine disc prosthesis: radiographic, biomechanical and morphological post mortal findings 12 weeks after implantation. A retrieval example
Tobias Pitzen, Annette Kettler, Joerg Drumm, Abdullah Nabhan, Wolf Ingo Steudel, Lutz Claes, Hans Joachim Wilke
The implantation of non-cell-based materials to prevent the recurrent disc herniation: an in vivo porcine model using quantitative discomanometry examination
Yao-Hung Wang, Tzong-Fu Kuo, Jaw-Lin Wang
Characterization of an in vitro intervertebral disc organ culture system
Casey L. Korecki, Jeffrey J. MacLean, James C. Iatridis
Biomechanical study of anterior spinal instrumentation configurations
Luc P. Cloutier, Carl-Eric Aubin, Guy Grimard
Pullout strength of anterior spinal instrumentation: a product comparison of seven screws in calf vertebral bodies
Konrad Seller, Dieter Wahl, Alexander Wild, Rüdiger Krauspe, Erich Schneider, Berend Linke
Metal levels in corrosion of spinal implants
Javier del Rio, Jose Beguiristain, Julio Duart
The spinal cord dura mater reaction to nitinol and titanium alloy particles: a 1-year study in rabbits
Souad Rhalmi, Sylvie Charette, Michel Assad, Christine Coillard, Charles H. Rivard