Oh, my aching wallet: MRI instead of physical therapy for low back pain leads to $4,793 higher price By Lenny Bernstein March 27, 2015 Your back hurts (join the club) and you go to see your primary care physician. Most of the time, your doctor will tell you to rest, maybe take some ibuprofen or […]
Nakashima, Hiroaki MD; Yukawa, Yasutsugu MD; Suda, Kota MD; Yamagata, Masatsune MD; Ueta, Takayoshi MD; Kato, Fumihiko MD Spine 15 March 2015 Vol. 40 – Issue 6: p 392–398 Abstract Study Design. Cross-sectional study. Objective. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of abnormal findings on cervical spine magnetic resonance […]
Spine. 40(6):392–398, MAR 2015 DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000775 , , PMID: 25584950 Issn Print: 0362-2436 Publication Date: 2015/03/15 Hiroaki Nakashima; Yasutsugu Yukawa; Kota Suda; Masatsune Yamagata; Takayoshi Ueta; Fumihiko Kato Abstract Study Design. Cross-sectional study. Objective. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of abnormal findings on cervical spine magnetic resonance image […]
Comparison Of Cervical Spine Stiffness In Individuals With Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain And Asymptomatic Individuals Authors: Lewis A. Ingram Study Design Clinical measurement, cross-sectional. Objective To determine if spinal joint stiffness is different in individuals with nonspecific neck pain, and whether stiffness magnitude is associated with pain intensity and disability. Background Manual therapists commonly evaluate […]
The correlation of radiographic findings and patient symptomatology in cervical degenerative joint disease: a cross-sectional study Iris Sun Rudy, Alexandra Poulos, Laura Owen, Ashlee Batters, Kasia Kieliszek, Jessica Willox and Hazel Jenkins Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2015, 23:9 doi:10.1186/s12998-015-0052-0 Abstract Background There are few known studies investigating the correlation of symptomatology with the specific subtypes of cervical spine […]
Bone Morphology and Modic Classifications – William Morgan, DC VERTEBRAL BODY EDEMA IS A COMMON FINDING on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Though degenerative changes such as bony edema may equate to unimportant background noise for the busy clinician, recent studies have found that vertebral marrow edema is clinically significant and can be a progressive condition. […]
Ramirez N, et al. J Pediatr Orthop. 2015. J Pediatr Orthop. 2015 Jan;35(1):28-32. doi: 10.1097/BPO.0000000000000190. Abstract BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested that back pain in the majority of pediatric patients does not have an identifiable cause. Many children undergo extensive diagnostic workup that ultimately results in a nonconfirmative diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to […]
Exp Brain Res. 2015 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print] Changes in H-reflex and V-waves following spinal manipulation. Niazi IK, Türker KS, Flavel S, Kinget M, Duehr J, Haavik H. Abstract This study investigates whether spinal manipulation leads to neural plastic changes involving cortical drive and the H-reflex pathway. Soleus evoked V-wave, H-reflex, and M-wave […]
IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2015 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print] Ultrasound Volume Projection Imaging for Assessment of Scoliosis. Cheung CW, Zhou GQ, Law SY, Mak TM, Lai KL, Zheng YP. Abstract The standing radiograph is used as a gold standard to diagnose spinal deformity including scoliosis, a medical condition defined as lateral spine curvature […]
Michael Eller, Peter J Goadsby Expert Rev Neurother. 2013;13(3):263-273. Abstract and Introduction Abstract Headaches are described as primary, where no contributing cause is found, or secondary, where a discrete lesion or other condition has triggered the phenotype. Primary headache is a common condition; migraine causes much of the morbidity in this population, at great personal […]
Larry Hand January 16, 2015 Physicians may be able to predict which patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) will be subject to severe pain by determining whether meniscal lesions are contributing to neuropathic pain (NP) in the knee, according to an article published online December 14 in Arthritis Research & Therapy. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to make a diagnosis of […]
November 26, 2014 JACC: Heart Failure TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The authors examined the correlation between ankle–brachial index (ABI) and risk for heart failure (HF) in a large retrospective study involving 13,150 patients (free of HF at baseline) followed up over a period of 17 years. Compared with patients with an ABI of 1.01 to 1.40, those […]
Bodindr Thepchatri , M.D The Spine Journal Volume 14, Issue 11, Supplement, Pages A1-A8, S1-S224 (1 November 2014) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society, NASS 29th Annual Meeting San Francisco, California 12–15 November 2014 BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Recently, attention has been directed to the impact of adult scoliosis or scoliosis […]