We conducted a study to determine the common characteristics of patients who developed radiculopathy symptoms and corresponding heterotopic ossification (HO) from transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions (TLIF) using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 2 (rhBMP-2). HO can arise from a disk space with rhBMP-2 use in TLIF. Formation of bone around nerve roots or the thecal sac can cause a...

Postoperative radiculopathy is a complication of posterior cervical decompression associated with tethering of the nerve root. We reviewed retrospectively 287 consecutive patients with cervical compression myelopathy who had been treated by multilevel cervical laminectomy and identified 37 (12.9%) with postoperative radiculopathy. There were 27 men and ten women with a mean age of 56 years at t...

STUDY DESIGN National population-based cohort study. OBJECTIVE To compare the reoperation rates between cervical spondylotic radiculopathy and myelopathy in a national population of patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA There is an inherently low incidence of reoperation after surgery for cervical degenerative disease. Therefore, it is difficult to sufficiently power studies to detect differ...

Peripheral, cervical and cortical somatosensory evoked potentials after median or ulnar nerve stimulation were recorded in 21 patients with cervical spondylosis with radiculopathy or myelopathy. The test was normal when pain and paraesthesias were the only symptoms, while pathological in radiculopathy with objective neurological signs. The results varied in patients with cervical myelopathy.

STUDY DESIGN A case series of consecutive patients with cervical radiculopathy. BACKGROUND A multitude of physical therapy interventions have been proposed to be effective in the management of cervical radiculopathy. However, outcome studies using consistent treatment approaches on a well-defined sample of patients are lacking. The purpose of this case series is to describe the outcomes of a ...

STUDY DESIGN Cohort study. PURPOSE This study primarily aimed to evaluate the serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and interleukin (IL)-4 in patients with lumbar radiculopathy 1 and 12 months after microdiscectomy. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Lumbar radiculopathy is possibly caused by inflammatory changes in the nerve root. The intraneural application of pro-inflammatory cytokines...

In clinical electromyography (EMG) musculus extensor digitorum brevis (MEDB) is known as "the marker" for L5/sl radiculopathy. Radiculopathy is mainly sensory syndrome in which the pain appears in innervation's zone of one or more spinal nerves. Moreover, in clinical practice it is also known that radiculopathy is not only sensory disorders but also may be followed by muscle weakness and atroph...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. PURPOSE To determine the incidence of cervical radiculopathy requiring operative intervention by level and to report on the methods of treatment. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Cervical radiculopathy is a common cause of pain and can result in progressive neurological deficits. Although the pathology is well understood, the actual incidence of cervical radicu...

STUDY DESIGN This prospective cohort study evaluated four office tests of quadriceps strength in symptomatic adults with radiographic evidence of L3 or L4 nerve root compression. OBJECTIVE The study observed the performance of each test for its ability to detect quadriceps weakness when compared to the asymptomatic side. To determine the potential influence of radicular pain on the performanc...

introduction pharmacologic treatment of radicular pain with oral medications is limited by adverse effects and concern for dependence. while topical formulations have been explored in pain research, there is no published literature evaluating the efficacy in radicular pain. we present the first three cases of radicular pain successfully treated with a topical formulation of diclofenac, ibuprofe...