Objective: The etiology and pathology of pain in the lumbosacral region and pelvis of pregnant women during and after pregnancy have not been fully determined. This study evaluated if lower back pain during pregnancy and after childbirth is connected with static alterations in the alignment of the pelvis, dysfunction of sacroiliac joints, and irritation of the pelvic ligaments and spine in the lumbosacral region.
Methods: This study was carried out on a group of 30 women in their eighth month of pregnancy and through 3 months after childbirth. Techniques of manual examination were used to determine the strain. Static alteration of the pelvis was evaluated in both the sitting and standing positions on the basis of alignment of the posterior superior iliac spines. Irritation of the iliolumbar ligaments, sacrotuberous, sacroiliac, and interspinous ligaments was evaluated by means of pressure palpation. Disorders of sacroiliac joint function were evaluated with the Patrick FABERE test, the standing Gillet test, and the standing and sitting flexion tests.
Results: The most frequently irritated ligaments in the lumbar region are interspinous (60%), iliolumbar (40%), and sacroiliac (36%).
Conclusions: In women, in their eighth month of pregnancy and after childbirth, disorders of static alterations in pelvis alignment and sacroiliac joint dysfunction may occur. The state of pregnancy may result in strain symptoms in the lumbosacral region and pelvis with variable pain intensifying in various static positions.
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Neurospine
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Department of Neurosurgery, Spine Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
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December 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Och Spine Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York.
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J Orthop Surg Res
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beijing Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China.
Objective: This study aims to introduce a two-stage surgical procedure, namely oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF), for spinal disorders treatment. Furthermore, clinical outcomes and imaging results are analyzed between OLIF with posterior fixation and posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) with fixation for lumbosacral curve-driven degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS).
Methods: 146 patients with type 2 DLS who underwent OLIF or PLIF between January 2019 and November 2023 were included.
Khirurgiia (Mosk)
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Irkutsk State Medical University, Irkutsk, Russia.
Objective: To analyze the short- and mid-term results of posterolateral endoscopic discectomy (PLED) in patients with lumbosacral junction intervertebral discs (IVD) herniations.
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