Background: Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is widely used in degenerative lumbar spine surgery. Previous studies of radiographic investigations after LLIF have assessed the anterior interbody fusion rate, the changes…
Background: Fusion surgeries for scoliosis patients are believed to deteriorate sports performance; in particular, forward roll should deteriorate, but no literature is available to substantiate this claim. Hypothesis: The extent…
doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2021.708243. eCollection 2021. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Kepler University Hospital, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. Item in…
Review doi: 10.3390/life11070696. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Hospital, Daegu 42415, Korea. 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hanil…
Background context: Conservative methods are the traditional options in management of Lumber Spondylolysis while operative interference is indicated for symptomatic not responding patients to medical treatment and cases with multilevel…
Background: Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is a novel, minimally invasive technique for the surgical treatment of lumbar diseases. The aim of this study was to identify the incidence and…
Objective: Sustained postoperative opioid use after elective surgery is a matter of growing concern. Herein, the authors investigated incidence and predictors of long-term opioid use among patients undergoing elective lumbar…
Objective: There is a paucity of research on the safety of overlapping surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of overlapping surgery on a homogenous population…
Objective: The authors compared primary lumbar spine fusions with revision fusions by using patient Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) scores to evaluate the impact of the North American Spine Society (NASS)…
Objective: Hip-spine syndrome has been well studied since it was first described by Offierski and MacNab in 1983. Today, strong evidence links symptoms of hip and spine pathology to postsurgical…