ReviewAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2007
Scientific basis for the treatment of low back pain.
Review in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Overview on Percutaneous Therapies of Disc Diseases.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Review
- The myth of lumbar instability: the importance of abnormal loading as a cause of low back pain.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2008Review
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Abstract
Disc degeneration causes back pain because the function of the disc as a load transferring structure is abnormal, producing abnormal patterns of load which cause pain. Fusion has been unpredictable because it only fortuitously addresses loading. A fusion may be in such a position that it takes load from the disc, and this may be reflected in the way the fusion models, demonstrating a weight bearing pattern, but this is unpredictable. Recognition that we are dealing with a problem of load transfer allows us to design any surgical implant to solve this problem, without stopping movement.
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