Recent research has focused on identifying risk factors, improving diagnostic methods, and exploring effective management strategies for lumbar spondylolysis and associated low back pain.

This condition is frequently associated with sports that involve repetitive hyperextension of the lumbar ... Spondylolysis: A defect in the pars interarticularis of the vertebrae, often leading to ...

h.u-tokyo.ac.jp Objectives: Although lumbar spondylosis is a major cause of low back pain and disability in elderly people, few epidemiological studies have been performed. The prevalence of ...

Lower back pain? You may have heard your practitioner mention something about your L4-L5 spinal segment. The lower back ...

The lumbar vertebrae are in the lower back and closest to the tailbone, which is commonly where spondylolysis occurs. Each vertebra has a ring of bone that forms part of the spinal canal. There are ...

Objective: To determine whether the location of spondylolysis in the lumbar spine of athletes ... 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.04 to 0.38). Lower lumbar levels showed increased scintigraphic uptake ...

5 Neurosurgical Clinic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 6 Orthopaedic Clinic Friedrichsheim, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Background: Previous ...

Common early symptoms are frequent pain and stiffness in the lower back and ... reduced lumbar curvature, and pelvic rotation. Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis that causes ...

Background Osteoporosis (OP) is a frequent complication of ankylosing spondylitis ... increase of low BMD at the femoral neck in patients with AS compared with age-and-sex-matched healthy controls.