Publications by authors named "Kathleen F Wehman"
The clinical usefulness of intraoperative spinal stiffness measurements.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
May 2002
Study Design: Determination of clinical results at least 2 years after lumbar spine surgery during which spinal stiffness measurements were made.
Objectives: To determine whether spine stiffness is predictive of clinical results after lumbar spine surgery for spinal stenosis, disc herniation, or degenerative spondylolisthesis.
Summary Of Background Data: The implied clinical wisdom is that instability of the spine portends a poor prognosis for relief of back pain after surgery in the absence of a fusion.
Study Design: Prospective trial.
Objectives: To test an intraoperative diagnostic tool to determine if it provided the surgeon with a safe, reproducible, accurate, quantitative measure of lumbar spine motion segment stability.
Summary Of Background Data: Several devices have been developed to measure motion segment stiffness, however, few have been tested intraoperatively on humans, and none, to the best of the authors' knowledge have been tested as extensively as the device described in this study.