BACKGROUND CONTEXT The accurate determination of a patient's functional status is necessary for therapeutic decision-making and to critically appraise treatment efficacy …
G Bjornsdottir, L Stefansdottir, G Thorleifsson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Back pain is a common and debilitating disorder with largely unknown underlying biology. Here we report a genome-wide association study of back pain using diagnoses assigned in …
T Miki, N Fujita, H Takashima… - Progress in …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between intervertebral disc degeneration in the lumbar spine, paraspinal muscle morphology, and clinical features …
OP Gautschi, NR Smoll, H Joswig, MV Corniola… - Clinical neurology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Demographic changes will lead to an increase of elderly people in our population and consecutively to a higher prevalence of patients suffering from degenerative …
Background and purpose Nonspecific low back pain (LBP) is the most prevalent musculoskeletal condition in various age ranges and is associated with depression. The aim …
ML Ferreira, K De Luca - Best practice & research Clinical rheumatology, 2017 - Elsevier
The term 'spinal pain'collectively includes the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral regions of the spine. The majority of older people experience spinal pain, and with an increasing …
L Yang, J Kong, Z Qiu, T Shang, S Chen… - Regenerative …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As a minimally invasive surgery, percutaneous cement discoplasty (PCD) is now contemplated to treat lumbar disc degeneration disease in elder population. Here, we …
HM Langevin - The Journal of Pain, 2021 - Elsevier
A challenge in understanding chronic musculoskeletal pain is that research is often siloed between neuroscience, physical therapy/rehabilitation, orthopedics, and rheumatology …
Background The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test, as a measure of objective functional impairment in lumbar degenerative disk disease (DDD), complements patient-reported …