Lumbar spine
Treatment of the Lumbar Spine
... Patients suffering from lumbar spine disorders make up one of the largest populations seeking healthcare services. These pathologies are highly prevalent across all age groups and physical therapists must ...
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Biomechanical analysis of the posterior bony column of the lumbar spine
... the lumbar motion segment, the three-joint com- plex consisted of the adjacent upper and lower vertebrae, front disc, and upper and lower facet joints that are located on both sides of the rear column ...the ...
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Intra-abdominal pressure mechanism for stabilizing the lumbar spine
... the lumbar spine presented here is consistent with several in vivo studies reported in the ...the lumbar spine, these results support the mechanism outlined in the current study, by which no ...
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Automatic Segmentation of the Lumbar Spine from Medical Images
... In Chapter 4 the method introduced for 2D segmentation is developed and extended to the problem of 3D segmentation of the lumbar spine. More specifically, the chapter is focused on segmentation of vertebrae ...
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"Minimally invasive" lumbar spine surgery: a critical review
... Background Minimal-access technology has evolved rapidly with WtubularW or WpercutaneousW approaches for decompres- sion and stabilization in the lumbar spine. Potential benefits (smaller scars, diminished ...
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Lateral Translation of the Lumbar Spine: In Vitro Biomechanical Study
... in lumbar spine with human cadavers was performed in order to explore the direction of the force increasing lateral translation and the contributions of discs and facet joints to lateral ...Whole ...
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Evaluation of unilateral cage-instrumented fixation for lumbar spine
... in lumbar spinal fusion independent of one or two ...degenerative lumbar spine ...of lumbar spine might develop if inherent asymmetry ...
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Lumbar Spine Location in Fluoroscopic Images by Evidence Gathering
... Figure 1: (A) The first frame of a lumbar Spine sequence. (B) The second frame of the sequence. Back pain has been studied widely. An important mechanical cause is spinal instability. Weiler [2] suggested ...
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Normal Fetal Lumbar Spine on Postmortem MR Imaging
... abnormal spine on postmortem MR images, it is essential to understand normal appearance of the fetal spine, which would be predicted to change radically during ...fetal lumbar spine on ...
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Transforminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion in Management of Degenerative Disorders of the Lumbar Spine (Tlif)
... Lumbar spine fusion has become a commonly performed surgery, and its use continues to rise. Initially, reconstructive spinal fusion surgery was used for the management of infectious conditions, adolescent ...
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Clinical Instability of the Lumbar Spine: Diagnosis and Intervention
... chronic MLBP may have difficulty moving their pelvis independently from the thorac- ic spine and hips. Initial training involves teaching independent pelvic motion. After patients are able to isolate pelvic ...
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The effects of restricted workspace on lumbar spine loading
... Abstract. Coal miners often handle heavy electrical power cables, weighing up to 10 kg per meter. These cables are manually lifted and attached to the mine roof to prevent damage from mobile underground equipment. Data ...
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Design and Analysis of Lumbar Spine using Finite Element Method
... cord. The spinal cord include vertebrae, discs, and ligaments, all the three part gives flexibility of motion, protecting spinal cord and body force distribution. Here an effort is mad to design spinal cord with the help ...
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Primary extrahepatic alveolar echinococcosis of the lumbar spine and the psoas muscle
... Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) of human being caused by Echinococcus multilocularis is a rare but important zoonosis especially in tempered zones of middle Europe and Northern America with endemic character in many ...
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Investigation into the biomechanics of lumbar spine micro dynamic pedicle screw
... porcine lumbar spines were employed in the in-vitro biomechanical experiments due to lack of human ca- daver ...porcine lumbar spine had little ROM in axial rotation, that may have a notable impact ...
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The postoperative lumbar spine: enhanced MR evaluation of the intervertebral disk
... changes are seen in patients after injection of chymopapain, which can be viewed as a model of accelerated disk degeneration (11). A similar course of events could be postulated after dis- kectomy, with curettage of the ...
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Adult Patient Doses for Chest, Skull and Lumbar Spine Examinations
... Figure 2. Distribution of ESD per radiograph for lumbar spine AP examinations in IFF Hospital. First and third quar- tiles values are indicated by dot and dash lines respectively while mean values are ...
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Shock attenuation in the human lumbar spine during walking and running
... straighter lumbar spines ...curved lumbar postures allow the lower spine to act like a ‘ shock absorber ’ during locomotion (Kapandji, 1974; Adams and Hutton, 1985; Rak, 1993; Kobayashi et ...the ...
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Quantification of 99mTc-DPD concentration in the lumbar spine with SPECT/CT
... However, owing to the problems in quantifying ACC in humans described in this study, data on the regional ACC in, for example, spongious bone is still scarce. Israel et al. used an empirical thresholding approach to ...
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Osteoid Osteoma of the Lumbar Spine in a 3.5-Year-Old Boy
... In this report, we described a case of osteoid osteoma at the lumbar spine of a 3.5-year-old boy that was managed successfully with the resection of the lesion. Although the diagnosis of spinal osteoid ...
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