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8 important items from the ISSLS Annual Meeting
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Spine Surgery Today features eight stories to keep your practice up to date from the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting
Link possible between running, swimming and lumbar disc degeneration
SAN FRANCISCO — Intense swimming and running at a younger age was associated with more lumbar disc degeneration later on among young Finnish adults, according to results of a study presented here. Read more.
Manual spine manipulation may provide more short-term low back pain relief than other methods
SAN FRANCISCO — Compared with mechanical-assisted manipulation and usual medical care, manual-thrust manipulation provided patients with more relief of low back pain in the short term, according to study data presented at the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting. Read more.
Physicians may underestimate patient leg pain during clinical consultation
SAN FRANCISCO — Physicians accurately deciphered the location of the main source of patients’ pain and the differential between back and leg pain with a good degree of accuracy during a clinical consultation, but often underestimated patients’ satisfaction with their current state and degree of leg pain, according to study findings. Read more.
Score developed to identify SI joint dysfunction, mitigate need for injection
SAN FRANCISCO — A simple, nine-point sacroiliac joint score developed by investigators from Japan may help distinguish sacroiliac joint dysfunction, which can affect the back, buttocks, groin and lower extremities, from lumbar spine disorders without the need for sacroiliac injection. Read more.
Interspinous spacer for lumbar stenosis likely not inferior to existing device
SAN FRANCISCO — An interspinous device designed to treat patients with lumbar spinal stenosis implanted using a minimally invasive technique was associated with good clinical results at short-term follow-up, according to findings from a prospective, randomized, multicenter FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) trial presented here at the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting. Read more.
Provocative discography may lead to more imaging and back problems in long-term
SAN FRANCISCO — Results of a 10-year matched cohort study showed patients who underwent provocative discography at three lower lumbar levels required more lumbar surgery at the 10-year follow-up than a control group who did not undergo discography, and these differences were considered statistically significantly different, according to a presenter here. Read more.
Systemic blood biomarker levels higher in patients with moderate-to-severe lumbar degeneration
SAN FRANCISCO — It may eventually prove more cost-effective to determine whether a patient has lumbar degenerative disc disease by identifying the presence of the proinflammatory chemokines CCL5 and CXCL6A, which are biomarkers in the blood, than it is to perform an MRI, according to a presenter here. Read more.
Addressing potentially modifiable risk factors may help reduce low back pain
SAN FRANCISCO — Obesity, sleep, physical activity and psychological pathology can have an impact on a patient’s degree of low back pain, according to a speaker at the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting, here. Read more.