ArticleScientific reports2023
Muscle strength rather than appendicular skeletal muscle mass might affect spinal sagittal alignment, low back pain, and health-related quality of life.
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- Association of paraspinal muscle morphology or composition with sagittal spinopelvic alignment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Age-Related Transitions in Low Back Pain Pathology: A Life-Course Narrative Review.Pain and therapy · 2026Review
- The sarcopenia-pain connection: why mechanisms matter for patient care?Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Relationship Between Weight, Muscle Mass, Cardiorespiratory Endurance, and Likelihood of Dynapenia in Older Adults.Journal of aging research · 2026Article
- Developing and validating prediction models for low back pain and neck pain in office workers: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between muscle mass and low back pain: a cross-sectional study.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 · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of gut microbiota in intervertebral disc degeneration: insights from bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis.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 · 2025Article
- Causal associations between sarcopenia-related traits and intervertebral disc degeneration: a two-sample mendelian randomization analysis.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 · 2024Article
- Secondary Sarcopenia and Spinal Cord Injury: Clinical Associations and Health Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Handgrip strength is independently associated with physical quality of life in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between Trunk Muscle Mass and Progression of Vertebral Collapse in Patients Treated Conservatively for Vertebral Compression Fractures.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sarcopenia is defined as decreasing in muscle strength and mass, and dynapenia is defined as decreasing in muscle strength and maintained muscle mass. This study elucidated the prevalence and characteristics of sarcopenia and dynapenia and evaluate in elderly spinal disorders patients. 1039 spinal disorders patients aged ≥ 65 years were included. We measured age, grip strength, muscle mass, spinal sagittal alignment parameters, low back pain (LBP) scores and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) scores. Based on the previous reports, patients were categorised into normal group: NG, pre-sarcopenia group: PG, dynapenia group: DG, and sarcopenia group: SG. Pre-sarcopenia, dynapenia, and sarcopenia were found in 101 (9.7%), 249 (19.2%), and 91 (8.8%) patients, respectively. The spinal sagittal alignment parameters, trunk muscle mass, LBP, and HR-QoL scores were significantly worse in DG and SG compared with those in PG and NG. Spinal alignment, trunk muscle mass, and clinical outcomes, including LBP and HR-QoL scores, were maintained in the PG and poor in the DG and SG. Thus, intervention for muscle strength may be a treatment option for changes of spinal sagittal alignment and low back pain.
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