ArticleThe Journal of international medical research2021
Association between pain and gait instability in patients with lumbar disc herniation.
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- Edge-Enabled Real-Time Gait Assessment for Degenerative Spinal Disease Using Wearable Inertial Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Impact of Unilateral Sciatica Due to Lumbar Disc Hernia on Gait.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The impact of pain from medial meniscus injuries on walking movement patterns.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Back morphology and walking patterns mean 13.8 years after surgery for lumbar disk herniation in adolescents.Pain reports · 2024Article
- Clinical Effect of Minimally Invasive Microendoscopic-Assisted Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Single-Level Lumbar Disc Herniation.Orthopaedic surgery · 2022Article
- Differences between Systems Using Optical and Capacitive Sensors in Treadmill-Based Spatiotemporal Analysis of Level and Sloping Gait.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether pain is associated with gait instability in patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH).
methodsThis retrospective cross-sectional study used data from electronic medical records. Among patients with lumbar back pain caused by LDH between January 2017 and July 2019, patients that underwent gait analysis were included. LDH was diagnosed using magnetic resonance imaging. An OptoGait photoelectric cell system was used for gait evaluation. Instability was measured using a gait symmetry index. Multivariate linear regression analysis was performed to determine the association between lumbar pain and gait instability.
resultsA total of 29 patients (12 females [41.4%] and 17 males [58.6%]; mean ± SD age, 40.6 ± 12.0 years) with LDH were enrolled in the study. With each 1-point increase in lumbar pain on the numeric rating scale, the symmetry index of the stance phase (0.33; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.04, 0.62), swing phase (0.78; 95% CI 0.14, 1.43) and single support (0.79; 95% CI 0.15, 1.43) increased.
conclusionsGait instability in patients with LDH may occur due to an increase in pain.
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