Comparison of Pelvic Tilt Before and After Hip Flexor Stretching in Healthy Adults.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the association between hip flexor length and pelvic tilt or lumbar lordosis by quantifying the effect of stretching on pelvic tilt and lumbar lordosis.

Methods: We quantified pelvic tilt and lumbar lordosis before and after a single session of passive hip flexor stretching in a sample of 23 male participants. Changes in hip flexor length were also characterized, using a Thomas test protocol to measure passive hip extension in supine lying.

Medium-term outcome of posterior surgery in the treatment of non-tuberculous bacterial spinal infection.

Objective: to evaluate the outcome of posterior spinal stabilization surgery for the management of bacterial spinal infection.

Methods: 21 patients with bacterial infection were managed surgically with posterior stabilization. Outcome measures included neurological status.

Management of Pyogenic Spinal Infection, review of literature.

Objective: To evaluate the available evidence for the management of Pyogenic Spinal Infection (PSI).

Methods And Results: A comprehensive search for the relevant literature published between 1990 and 2018 to evaluate the management of PSI was conducted.Nonoperative management of carefully selected patients for an adequate duration of antibiotics can result in satisfactory outcomes with low recurrence rate.

A Systematic Review Investigating the Effectiveness of Surgical Versus Conservative Management of Unstable Ankle Fractures in Adults.

Nine percent of all fractures affect the ankle, with an annual incidence of 122/100,000 in Edinburgh, UK. While unstable fractures are usually treated surgically, there has been no recent systematic review of the evidence supporting this decision. In this systematic review, relevant electronic databases (such as MEDLINE and CINHAL) were searched from inception to February 2017.

The Effectiveness of Surgical Interventions in the Management of Malunited Calcaneal Fractures: A Systematic Review.

Nonoperative management may result in calcaneal malunion with consequences of pain, deformity, and functional limitation. The aim of this review was to proffer an evidence-based scientific account of the effectiveness of contemporary surgical procedures in the management of malunited calcaneal fractures after initial conservative management. This systematic review included studies that evaluated the surgical procedures in the management of calcaneal malunion and systematically searched studies published between January 2005 and June 2016.

Development of a clinical examination in non-specific low back pain: a Delphi technique.

Objective: To establish the discriminatory items of the clinical examination of non-specific low back pain, important to physiotherapists.

Design: A focus group and Delphi technique with UK physiotherapists.

Subjects: A purposive sample of 30 physiotherapists attended a focus group and completed 3 rounds of Delphi questionnaires.

Between-days reliability of electromyographic measures of paraspinal muscle fatigue at 40, 50 and 60% levels of maximal voluntary contractile force.

Objective: To ascertain which percentage of maximal voluntary contractile force of the paraspinal muscles, when tested in a functional position, is most reliable for assessing electromyographic (EMG) fatigue changes.

Subjects: Ten healthy volunteers with no history of low back pain (six males).

Main Outcome Measures: The surface EMG signal during 60-second isometric contractions of the paraspinal muscles at 40, 50 and 60% levels of maximal voluntary contractile force was captured and analysed.