Disk, Herniated

This paper offers a mechanistic account of back pain which attempts to incorporate all of the most important recent advances in… Expand

OBJECTIVE To determine whether repeated motion with low magnitude joint forces, and flexion/extension moments consistently… Expand

BACKGROUND Symptoms and secondary disorders associated with excess central fat distribution are being increasingly recognised. We… Expand

Study Design. The presence or absence of rapidly centralizing, peripheralizing, or abolishing low back and radiating pain, as… Expand

Study Design This was a prospective study of patients (study group) with symptomatic disc herniations and asymptomatic volunteers… Expand

Biopsy specimens of the lumbar multifidus were obtained from 18 patients with lumbar disc herniation at operation and after a… Expand

Low back pain is common, but a herniated intervertebral disk is the cause in only a small percentage of cases. Most symptomatic… Expand

Fifty-two cadaveric lumbar motion segments were subjected to fatigue loading in compression and bending to determine if the… Expand

 

1. Compression forces are mainly absorbed by the vertebral body. The nucleus pulposus, being liquid, is incompressible. The tense… Expand