Background: Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is used to treat multiple conditions, including spondylolisthesis, degenerative disc disorders (DDD), adjacent segment disease (ASD), and degenerative scoliosis. While many advocate for posterior…
Objective: Decompression surgery is a mainstay of surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). However, up to 30% of patients have low satisfaction due to residual symptoms. In the clinical…
Objective: Uniportal Endoscopic Posterolateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion provides one of the least invasive form of minmally invasive surgery allowing large size cages which were commercially available for open and tubular…
Background context: Understanding the scope of the volume and costs of lumbar fusions and discectomy procedures, as well as identifying significant trends within the Medicare system, may be beneficial in…
Background context: Despite well done randomized clinical trials, the role of fusion as an adjunct to decompression for the treatment of patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis remains controversial. There is substantial…
Background context: Reliable estimation of the likelihood for prolonged postoperative opioid use may aid targeted interventions for high-risk patients. Previous studies have recommended differing methodologies for prediction of sustained postoperative…
Purpose: The effectiveness of a 12-month home-exercise program on trunk muscle strength after lumbar spine fusion surgery was evaluated. Materials and methods: Three months postoperatively, 98 patients were randomized either…
Background: Opioid use in the management of pain secondary to spinal disorders has grown significantly in the United States. However, preoperative opioid use may complicate recovery in patients undergoing surgical…
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109895. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopaedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China; Key Laboratory of Molecular Mechanism for Repair and…
Study design: Narrative review. Objectives: In this review, we address the question of whether the literature supports the notion that minimally invasive transforaminal interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) improves outcome as compared…