Severe kyphosis
Posterior wedge osteotomy and debridement for Andersson lesion with severe kyphosis in ankylosing spondylitis
... correct severe kyphosis in AS, achiev- ing satisfactory deformity correction and good fusion at the same ...local kyphosis was substantially corrected from ...with severe kyphosis in ...
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Associations between vertebral fractures, increased thoracic kyphosis, a flexed posture and falls in older adults: a prospective cohort study
... thoracic kyphosis can originate from many causes, such as vertebral fractures, degenerative disc diseases, muscle weakness, and genetic disorders such as Scheuermanns disease ...be severe, even without ...
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Kyphosis Correction and Height Restoration Effects of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
... Severe kyphosis and a reduction in the height of the thoracic vertebral bodies occurs because of osteopo- rosis, and multiple vertebral fractures may reduce the pulmonary capacity, which in turn leads to an ...
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A single posterior approach for vertebral column resection in adults with severe rigid kyphosis
... of severe and rigid kyphosis through poste- rior-only approach that does not deteriorate compromised lung functions and reduces the risk of neurologic injury and profuse in- traoperative ...for ...
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Adjacent segment infection after surgical treatment of spondylodiscitis
... have even shown that the use of titanium mesh cages may have a beneficial influence on eradication of infection and fusion [15]. In addition, Ruf et al. did not find any association between titanium cages and persistence ...
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Comparison of three surgical approaches for thoracolumbar junction (T12 L1) tuberculosis: a multicentre, retrospective study
... Tuberculosis (TB) has an important influence on human health, especially in non-rich states [1–3]. China has the second largest TB infected population affecting an esti- mated 2 million people [4, 5]. Spinal TB may lead ...
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Segmental Spinal Dysgenesis: Neuroradiologic Findings with Clinical and Embryologic Correlation
... less severe kyphosis, there is a more or less markedly thinned cord and the spinal canal is continuous through the defect (Figs 4 and ...acute-angle kyphosis or kyphosco- liosis associated with an ...
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Laminoplasty instead of laminectomy as a decompression method in posterior instrumented fusion for degenerative cervical kyphosis with stenosis
... circumferential fusion with decompression [3]. Through an anterior approach, we initially restored the cervical lordosis and disk height; subsequently, posterior stabilization pro- vided a tension band force to retain ...
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Is correction of segmental kyphosis necessary in single-level anterior cervical fusion surgery? An observational study
... There are several limitations in the present study. First, this study only analyzed NDI and VAS and other functional outcome measurements, such as Short Form-36 and mean health-related quality of life were not evaluated ...
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A Randomized Trial Comparing 2 Techniques of Balloon Kyphoplasty and Curette Use for Obtaining Vertebral Body Height Restoration and Angular Deformity Correction in Vertebral Compression Fractures due to Osteoporosis
... and kyphosis correction in both treatment arms (CF and IBTF); the results also demonstrate that fracture mobility, fracture age, patient positioning, and IBT combined with curette use are important parameters that ...
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The effect of foot hyperpronation on spine alignment in standing position
... pronation of the subtalar joint, the calcane- us everts, causing the talus to slide medially and inferiorly. This medial downward movement of the talus induces an internal rotation of the tibia (14,22), and this may ...
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Effects of a 12-Week Global Corrective Exercise Intervention on Sway Back Posture in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
... Results: The 12-week intervention program resulted in significant within group differences in forward head, kyphosis, lordosis and postural sway angle (P < 0.001). There was also a significant between group ...
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Progression of local kyphosis after conservative treatment for compressive cervical spine fracture with spinal cord injury
... evaluating kyphosis in patients with non-traumatic pathology, such as degenerative cervical spines [19], which sup- ports the notion that the posterior tangent method can- not sufficiently detect vertebral ...
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The gym ball as a chair for the back pain patient: a two case report
... A limited search of the literature was conducted prima- rily via the following internet sites: Pubmed, Google, In- dex to Chiropractic Literature and the electronic library through Nova Southeastern University. The ...
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Impact of surgeons’ experience on accuracy of radiographic segmental kyphosis assessment in thoracolumbar fractures: a prospective observational study
... segmental kyphosis after thoracolumbar fractures, such as Cobb angle measurement, Gardner’ s method, wedging of the fractured vertebra and others, but none of these methods has been evaluated for reproducibility ...
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Evaluation of the influence of kyphosis and scoliosis on intervertebral disc extrusion in French bulldogs
... spinal kyphosis, and scoliosis were recorded for each ...malformations, kyphosis and scoliosis was not recorded for the cervical vertebral ...study, kyphosis was defined as a dorsal spinal curvature ...
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MULLIGAN VERSUS MAITLAND MOBILIZATION ON THORACIC KYPHOTIC ANGLE IN POSTURAL KYPHOSIS
... The survey will be done to include all male students with postural kyphosis using general postural examination. Simple randomization will be used to include seventy-five volunteers taking in our consideration the ...
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Characteristics of Modic changes in cervical kyphosis and their association with axial neck pain
... Participants with axial neck pain experienced more severe disc degeneration (P< 0.001) and worse spinal cord compres- sion compared to those who were asymptomatic (P= 0.023). Furthermore, angular motion was ...
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Analysis of 17 cases of posterior vertebral column resection in treating thoracolumbar spinal tuberculous angular kyphosis
... the kyphosis, as well as to perform the inter-vertebral support-graft fusion and internal fixation [13-15], which can avoid entering the chest and impede bringing Mycobacterium tuberculosis into the ...the ...
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Combined anterior lumbar interbody fusion and instrumented posterolateral fusion for degenerative lumbar scoliosis: indication and surgical outcomes
... thoracic kyphosis, thoracolumbar kyphosis, lumbar lordosis, plumbline offset from C7 to the posterosuperior corner of the S1 vertebral body, and maximal intervertebral anteroposterior olisth- ...
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