Considerable literature has been written on the utility of routine radiographs in evaluating patients with low back pain. While the ... et al [9] evaluated 69 pars defects and found that only ...

This paper describes the development of a fuzzy controller for motion control of a simplified robotic lumbar spine model. The behavior of the controller was simulated using a simplified robotic model ...

sometimes called a "pars defect" or "pars fracture") may occur at one or both sides of vertebrae in any section of the spine. It is most common, however, in vertebrae L4 and L5 – the lowest two ...

Introduction Surgical and invasive procedures are widely used in adults with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis when conservative treatments fail. However, little is known about the comparative ...

Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD), also known as percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression (PILD), is a minimally invasive treatment option for some people with spinal stenosis in ...

leeds.ac.uk Background: The precise anatomical location of pathology associated with inflammatory back pain (IBP) in early spondyloarthropathy (SpA) remains unclear. Objective: To use MRI to study the ...

Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) and lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) are common spine pathologies with different clinical presentations and interventions. HNP generally has an acute onset ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new method for rapidly generating accurate patient-specific lumbar spine volume mesh for finite element analysis. First, initial isosurface of the vertebral body is ...