Publications by authors named "Atul L Bhat"
Objective: To determine the efficacy of the Back Rx program in patients with diskogenic low back pain (LBP).
Design: Prospective, randomized study.
Setting: Outpatient setting of a major university teaching hospital.
Understanding the innervation of the lumbar spine can be a daunting task. Until recently, only macroscopic visualization and crude histological techniques were available to document the presence of nerve fibers in the anterior spinal canal. Using newer immunohistochemical techniques, studies have been able to more thoroughly investigate the innervation of the anterior spinal canal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLumbar zygapophyseal joints have long been considered a source of low back pain with or without leg pain. The objective of this prospective study was to investigate the therapeutic effectiveness of lumbar zygapophyseal joint radiofrequency denervation (RFD) followed by physical therapy, for the treatment of refractory lumbar zygapophyseal joint mediated low back pain secondary to lumbar zygapophyseal joint synovitis, in baseball pitchers. Participants included twelve male baseball pitchers with a diagnosis of lumbar zygapophyseal joint synovitis mediated low back pain and a subsequent difficulty in pitching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report on the incidence of dysphonia and/or associated throat symptoms after steroid injections in the axial skeleton.
Design: A prospective cohort study.
Setting: Academic spine center.
Objective: To determine the inciting events leading to the development of sacroiliac joint syndrome (SIJS).
Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive cohort series from an academic interdisciplinary spine center. Consecutive patients presenting with low back or buttock pain with or without leg symptoms who met specific inclusion and exclusion criteria for the diagnosis of SIJS were included in the study.
Background: Low back pain is fairly prevalent among golfers; however, its precise biomechanical mechanism is often debated.
Hypothesis: There is a positive correlation between decreased lead hip rotation and lumbar range of motion with a prior history of low back pain in professional golfers.
Study Design: A cross-sectional study.
Background Context: Perineural cysts are commonly found in the sacral region and are incidently discovered on imaging studies performed for the evaluation of low back and/or leg pain.
Purpose: To report on a patient presenting with abdominal pain secondary to a large sacral perineural cyst.
Study Design/setting: Case report.
Background Context: Lumbar zygapophysial joints are currently believed to be a cause of axial low back pain. Once this diagnosis is made, decisions about when to institute a particular intervention and which treatment to offer is regionally and specialty dependent.
Purpose: To perform a critical review of prior published studies assessing the use of interventional treatment options for the treatment of lumbar zygapophysial joint syndrome.
Objective: To assess the difference in efficacy between knee lavage plus the standard hylan G-F 20 (a derivative of hyaluronan) protocol and the standard hylan G-F 20 as per standard usage protocol alone for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Design: Nonrandomized prospective study in which patients chose their treatment group. Follow-up averaged 1.
Study Design: A prospective study randomized by patient choice from the private practice of a single physician affiliated with a major teaching hospital was conducted.
Objectives: To compare transforaminal epidural steroid injections with saline trigger-point injections used in the treatment of lumbosacral radiculopathy secondary to a herniated nucleus pulposus.
Summary Of Background Data: Epidural steroid injections have been used for more than half a century in the management of lumbosacral radicular pain.