A method of posterior lumbo-sacral fusion is described in which springs are used to fix the grafts and to maintain immobilisation. Fifty patients with lumbar disc degeneration or spondylolisthesis have been reviewed. The results have been assessed clinically by grading the symptoms before and after operation. Stay in hospital has been short and return to work rapid. There has been a high propor...

The treatment of pubic ramus nonunion is usually surgical. We report the successful healing of a hypertrophic nonunion of pubic ramus in a 46 year old active male patient who was treated conservatively with a lumbo-sacral corset. We believe that understanding the injury mechanics in pelvic injury is more important to employ a particular treatment method than to follow the conventional ways of t...

Sicard, Gally, and Haguenau (1926) first described cases of the condition now known as osteitis condensans ilii. The name of the disease was introduced by Bairsony and Polgair (1928), who recorded fifteen cases; they considered it to be a specific clinical entity, the lesion being found on radiological examination of the lumbo-sacral area, and the essential feature being dense sclerosis in the ...

^ treated in the Manchester Infirmary, supplies a record which will be greatly appreciated both by the physician mid surgeon, and found very serviceable in practice. His cases have been arranged on an anatomical basis according as the injury implicated the cervical, dorsal, lumbar or lumbo-sacral region, and each set of cases so arranged is prefaced by a precis of our knowledge derived from exp...

Objective: To observe the effectiveness of Pilate’s exercise, with postural advice to reduce low back pain for lower limb amputee patients. Material and Methods: An assessor-blind, randomised control trial design has been used wherein sixty-two patients were divided into two groups by simple random allocation. The experimental group received Pilates’ Training Program advice, usual care at prost...