To prospectively investigate the determinants of diurnal variations in lumbar intervertebral discs and paraspinal muscles....
71 females aged 19 ∼ 31 years were examined by morning-evening T2 mapping/diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), with weight and lifestyle information (time in night bed-rest [TIB], bed-napping, activity t...
For normal discs, bed-napping correlated with MD-DS and MK-DS in disc entirety (p = 0.001 and 0.004); increased activity time suggested higher T2-DS in nucleus pulposus (p = 0.004); prolonged sitting ...
Lifestyle and weight have causal effects on the diurnal variation of lumbar discs. Bed-rest may correlate with disc hydration and microstructural stability reserves for subsequent daytime activities. ...
Increasing research suggests that paraspinal muscle fat infiltration may be a potential biological marker for the assessment of osteoporosis. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between lumbar...
A total of 383 patients (aged 24-76 years, 193 females) with clinically and radiologically diagnosed LDH were enrolled in this retrospective study. The muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) and the proton...
Among the 383 LDH patients, 191 had normal bone density, 129 had osteopenia and 63 had osteoporosis. In LDH patients, compared to normal and osteopenia group, paraspinal muscle PDFF was significantly ...
In patients with LDH, paraspinal muscle properties measured by IDEAL-IQ sequence and lumbar MR scan were found to be related to vBMD. There was a correlation between the degree of paraspinal muscle PD...
To evaluate the value of five indicators in predicting OVCF through a retrospective case-control study, and explore the internal correlation of different indicators....
We retrospectively enrolled patients over 50 years of age who had been subjected to surgery for fragility OVCF at China Japan Friendship Hospital from January 2021 to September 2023. Demographic chara...
A total of 78 patients with lumbar fragility OVCF were included. All the five indicators were significantly correlated with the occurrence of OVCFs. Logistic regression analysis showed that average HU...
VBQ score and HU value has good value in predicting of fragility OVCF. In addition to bone mineral density, we should pay more attention to bone quality, including the fatty signal intensity in bone a...
This study aimed to characterise topographic distribution of pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) of thoracolumbar paraspinal muscles and its change after lengthening contractions (LCs) of the back muscles...
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between lumbar disc herniation and Goutallier classification (GC), lumbar indentation value, and subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness....
102 consecutive patients (59 female and 43 male) with lumbar back pain, numbness, tingling, or pain in the lower extremity indicating radiculopathy who had undergone lumbar magnetic resonance imaging ...
The Goutallier score was higher in the herniated group, compared with the non-herniated group (p < 0.001). There was no statistical difference between herniated and non-herniated groups regarding lumb...
Paraspinal muscle atrophy seems to be related to the presence of disc herniations. The cut-off value of GC to indicate the disc herniation in this study might be useful to predict the risk for disc he...
The effect of the parameters studied in this research on disc herniations are expected to be an added value to the literature. The awareness of risk factors for intervertebral disc herniations might b...
Bags such as handbags, shoulder bags, and backpacks are commonly used. However, it is difficult to assess the biomechanical effects of bag-carrying styles on the lumbar spine and paraspinal muscles us...
We developed a hybrid model that combined a finite element (FE) model of the lumbar spine and musculoskeletal models of three bag-carrying styles. The image data was collected from a 26-years-old, 176...
Different paraspinal muscle activation occurred in the three bag-carrying models. The increase in the ICF generated by all three bags was greater than the bags' weights. The handbag produced greater m...
Unbalanced bag-carrying styles (shoulder bags and handbags) led to greater muscle force, which generated greater ICF, ISF, and peak stress on the lumbar spine. The backpack produced the least burden o...
Although enormous studies have been devoted to solving the problem of intervertebral disc degeneration/herniation, little attention is paid to the effect of paraspinal muscles on it. We aimed to inves...
A total of 107 patients were enrolled in the study (65 females, 42 males; age 50.87 ± 15.391 years old). Cross-sectional area, functional cross-sectional area, and fatty infiltration of the posterior ...
There was a strong correlation between paraspinal muscle atrophy and disc degeneration after controlling the confounding factors (p < 0.05, R > 0.5). There was a weak correlation between paraspinal mu...
The degree of paraspinal muscle atrophy increased with lumbar disc degeneration and facet joint degeneration and fatty infiltration of multifidus was more susceptible to weight....
An assessment of paraspinal muscle degeneration based on magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate both sarcopenia and myosteatosis. The morphologic changes in cross-sectional area and f...
Patients ≥65 years of age who underwent fluoroscopy-guided lumbar epidural steroid injections were enrolled. Good analgesia was defined as ≥50% reduction in pain score at 4 weeks after injection. Cros...
A total of 245 patients consisting of 149 and 96 patients in the good and poor analgesia groups, respectively, fully satisfied the study criteria for analysis. Patients of older age, opioid use, and h...
High fat infiltration of the paraspinal muscles at the mid-lumbar region appeared to be an independent factor associated with poor analgesia after epidural steroid injection in elderly patients with s...
There is an interaction between the lumbar spine and paraspinal muscles, which may play a role in the development of intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration and may affect CLBP. The study aims to asses...
More than 619 million people in the world suffer from low back pain (LBP). As two potential inducers of LBP, intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) and fat infiltration of paraspinal muscles (PSMs) h...
