Lumbar spine mobility in Marfan syndrome
| Autor: | M. L. Laitinen, Antti Malmivaara, K. Tallroth, A. Savolainen, A. Zitting, I. Kaitila |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Joint Instability Male musculoskeletal diseases Marfan syndrome medicine.medical_specialty Radiography Physical examination Marfan Syndrome Lumbar Prevalence medicine Back pain Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Range of Motion Articular Lumbar Vertebrae medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged medicine.disease Health Surveys Low back pain Surgery Radiological weapon Female Neurosurgery medicine.symptom business Low Back Pain |
| Zdroj: | European Spine Journal. 2:230-234 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0932 0940-6719 |
| Popis: | Low back pain symptoms and lumbar spine mobility were assessed by questionnaires and by clinical and radiological measurements in 32 patients with Marfan syndrome. Frequently occurring low back pain was reported by 19% of the patients, but the disability was slight in all of them. Flexion and extension mobility of the lumbar spine (L1-S1) assessed from radiographs was 59.9 degrees and 13.2 degrees, respectively. Mean lumbar angular mobility between flexion and extension radiographs was 7.4 degrees at L1-2, 13.2 degrees at L2-3, 16.0 degrees at L3-4, 19.3 degrees at L4-5 and 18.3 degrees at L5-S1. No correlation was found between the manual assessment of lumbar segmental instability and radiological translatory motion, except at L2-3, where the correlation was negative (r = -0.41, P0.05). In conclusion, the prevalence of low back pain does not seem to differ substantially between Marfan syndrome patients and the normal population, and it seems that there is at most a slight hypermobility of the lumbar spine in Marfan syndrome. Several validity problems are encountered in the manual assessment of lumbar instability. |
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