Spine

A 51-year-old woman with no past medical history and on no medications presented to the office with a several-month history of left arm numbness, weakness in the bilateral lower extremities and gait instability.

Approximately 83% of patients with fibromyalgia demonstrate visually straight cervical spines, according to data published in the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology.

PHILADELPHIA — Combination therapy with celecoxib plus golimumab failed to show significant superiority to golimumab alone in slowing spine damage in radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2022.

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly half of patients with spine disease reported no back pain at CRMO onset, and one-third were asymptomatic despite active lesions on whole body MRI at diagnosis, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2022.

CHICAGO — Results presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting showed patients with recurrent mobile spine chondromas had a high rate of complications with or without surgical management.

Postmenopausal women with higher bone strain index values at the spine, neck and total hip are more likely to have incident fragility fractures vs. those with a lower bone strain index, according to study findings published in Bone.

Patients with self-reported elevated spine symptoms in psoriatic arthritis, with or without a diagnosis of axial disease, had worse quality of life and disease activity overall versus patients without axial manifestations, according to data.

People with severe Tourette syndrome or chronic tic disorders had a higher risk for cervical spine disorders than people without them, though it was a “relatively rare” outcome, according to a population-based, matched cohort study.

Among adults with differentiated thyroid cancer on thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression therapy, postmenopausal women had lower bone mineral density at the lumbar spine whereas premenopausal women had greater BMD vs. healthy controls.