Tag: Spinal Problems
Spinal Manipulation May Reduce Lumbar Spine Reoperations
Reoperations reduced for adults experiencing lumbosacral radiculopathy after lumbar discectomy with SMT versus usual care
Opioid Use Down With Erector Spinae Plane Blocks in Lumbar Laminectomy
Bilateral erector spinae plane blocks combined with multimodal analgesia also reduces pain scores, need for antiemetic therapy
App Beneficial for Management of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Model could recognize severities and curve types with higher sensitivity, negative predictive value than a junior and senior surgeon
Surgical Stabilization Beneficial for Odontoid Fractures
Mortality rate lower at 30 days and one year in propensity score-matched and Cox proportional hazards analyses
Long-Term Indwelling Urethral Catheter Tied to More Infections
UTI incidence higher with long-term IUC use for people with spinal cord injury, especially compared with suprapubic catheter
Pulsed Radiofrequency + Steroids Best for Sciatica From Herniated Disc
Outcomes better with pulsed radiofrequency + transforaminal epidural steroid injection than injection alone in terms of leg pain severity, disability over one year after treatment
Allograft Disc Tissue Injection Aids Degenerative Disc Disease Symptoms
Significant improvement in pain and function seen at 36 months
Use of Posterior Spinal Fusion Expected to Increase 80 Percent by 2060
Estimated rates expected to nearly triple for men, women aged 75 years and older, but remain flat for those younger than 55 years
Mortality Down With Surgery for Stenosis With, Without Spondylolisthesis
Reduced mortality and lower treatment costs seen for surgical treatment versus nonsurgical treatment
Computer Vision Approach Identifies Posterior Thoracolumbar Hardware
Model performed five-way classification with 79 percent accuracy in 14 seconds on 100 test images