PURPOSE To describe a technique involving posterior 360-degree stabilisation of the upper thoracic spine: spinal cord decompression, posterior vertebral body replacement, and then posterior instrumentation and intercostal posterolateral vertebral stabilisation. METHODS Three men and 4 women aged 41 to 77 (mean, 58) years underwent posterior 360-degree stabilisation of the upper thoracic spine...

Background & Objective:  Hyper- kyphosis negatively affects health status, physical mobility, and quality of life. Corrective exercise interventions are often utilized to manage subjects with thoracic hyper-hypnosis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of multimodal spine strengthening exercises (spinal strengthening, spinal alignment and other such exercises for incr...

Thoracic spine pain is as disabling as neck and low back pain without receiving the same level of attention in the scientific literature. Among the different structures that can refer pain to the thoracic spine, muscles often play a relevant role. Trigger points (TrPs) from neck, shoulder and spinal muscles can induce pain in the region of the thoracic spine. There is a lack of evidence reporti...

World Spinal Column Journal, Volume 6 / No: 3 / September 2015 AbSTrACT AIM: To assess the demographics, treatments, and radiographic and clinical outcomes of pediatric compression fractures. MATErIAl and METHoDS: A retrospective review of all pediatric patients presenting to a single institution between 2009 and mid 2012 with thoracic or lumbar compression fracture(s) was conducted. The mechan...

abstract background: correction of severe kyphosis is a challenging operation in spinal surgery. a two stage operation has been commonly used: anterior release and decompression followed by posterior correction and fusion. we describe the posterior vertebral osteotomy technique for correction of severe and rigid kyphosis through posterior-only approach. methods: twelve patients (six male and si...

background: the accuracy of pedicle screw placement is essential for lumbar and thoracolumbar spine fracture fixation. purpose: the aim of the present study was to assess the accuracy of the pedicle screw placement with conventional c-arm fuoroscopy-guided in these patients. methods: a retrospective review identified patients who underwent operative management with thoracolumbar instruments at ...

Background and purpose - Patients with osteoporosis who present with an acute onset of back pain often have multiple fractures on plain radiographs. Differentiation of an acute osteoporotic vertebral fracture (AOVF) from previous fractures is difficult. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of concomitant AOVFs and previous OVFs in patients with symptomatic AOVFs, and to identi...

Objective. To analyze dynamics of vertebrogenic pain syndrome and quality life after transpedicular decompression in patients with depressed fractures the thoracic lumbar spine. Material Methods. An observational prospective pilot study included 10 AO Spine type A1 spine operated on 2020–2021. All underwent decompression. Severity according to VAS, ODI score, magnitude apical kyphosis were stud...

BACKGROUND Despite the recent, widespread use around the world of computed tomography (CT)-guided spinal biopsy for presurgical evaluation, its use has remained uncommon in Taiwan. Using 9 patients, we attempted to evaluate the safety of its use for the thoracic spine biopsy. METHODS In the past 3 years (May 1996 to May 1999), 9 patients with known thoracic or multiple spinal lesions underwen...