Conservative Treatment: Children
Conservative Treatment: Children J. Dudler F. Balagué Before analyzing any treatment’s modality and outcome, it seems important to define the target population. It is believed that the majority of spondylolysis…
Sport, Spondylolysis, and Spondylolisthesis
Sport, Spondylolysis, and Spondylolisthesis E. Munting Which attitude must be adopted toward the young athlete or the occasional sportsman or woman presenting with low back pain? No clear guidelines regarding…
Classification of Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis
Classification of Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis Michael Sullivan The condition of slippage of the fifth lumbar vertebra on the sacrum has been known for many years, by obstetricians particularly. The condition…
Dynamic MRI Using the Upright or Positional MRI Scanner
Dynamic MRI Using the Upright or Positional MRI Scanner F. W. Smith M. H. Pope D. Wardlaw Clinical symptoms in many spinal syndromes such as lumbar spinal stenosis are posture…
Imaging of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis
Imaging of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Jean-Louis Dietemann Adriana Bogorin Robertson Correia Bernardo Georg Zöllner Radiological investigations using plain films, multidetector row helical computed tomography (CT) with multiplanar reformations, magnetic resonance imaging…
The Value of Bone Scintigraphy and CT Scan in Diagnosis and Treatment of Active Spondylolysis in Elite Athletes
The Value of Bone Scintigraphy and CT Scan in Diagnosis and Treatment of Active Spondylolysis in Elite Athletes J. Sys J. Michielsen Low back pain accounts for 5% to 8%…
Isthmic and Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: When Does it Hurt and Why?
Isthmic and Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: When Does it Hurt and Why? Tommy Hansson Spondylolisthesis is frequently regarded as one of the very few specific diagnoses of low back pain and often…
Mechanics of Neurological Impingement
Mechanics of Neurological Impingement Brian J. C. Freeman Anatomical stenosis of the lumbar spinal canal was first suggested as a cause for spinal stenosis syndromes by Sarpyener (1) and Verbiest…
Biomechanics of Spondylolysis with Reference to its Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Slippage
Biomechanics of Spondylolysis with Reference to its Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Slippage Koichi Sairyo Vijay K. Goel Ashok Biyani Nabil Ebraheim Lumbar spondylolysis is primarily a stress fracture of the…
