Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke and Walter Essex Wynter independently developed techniques to perform lumbar punctures in 1888, and 1889 respectively. Lumbar puncture (LP) is one of the most common ...

There is weak relationship between the presence of lumbar spondylolisthesis [SPL] and low back pain that is not always associated with instability, either at the involved lumbar segment or at ...

Abstract: Most lumbar quantitative assessment methods can only analyze the image from one view and require laborious manual annotation. We aim to develop an unsupervised pipeline for 3D quantitative ...

Abstract: Trunk-movement involves coordinated activity of different lumbar muscles. By assessing the lumbar muscles activity, the pathogeny of some neuromuscular disease might be revealed. Surface ...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this retrospective practice audit was to assess the correlation between painful zygapophysial joints and changes seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Patients with unilateral ...

ABSTRACT: Background: It has been accepted amongst rheumatologists that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) does not involve the facet joints (FJs) of the spine; nevertheless, the issue is still under debate.