Instrumented spinal fixation is ordinarily required in patients who present with myelopathy or cauda equina syndrome secondary to vertebral collapse following osteoporotic thoracolumbar fracture. Posterior spinal fixation is a major surgical option, and partial vertebral osteotomy (PVO) through a posterior approach is occasionally reasonable for achievement of complete neural decompression and ...

MR imaging is increasingly used for the evaluation of patients with acute spinal injury because of its ability to noninvasively demonstrate parenchymal alterations involving the spinal cord as well as alterations involving surrounding osseous, soft-tissue, and ligamentous structures [1-4). The presence of epidural hematomas, disk herniation, or other epidural structural alterations that may cau...

*Liu, X.-C.; +**Rizza, R.; *Thometz, J.; *Tassone, C. *Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin. +**Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI [email protected] INTRODUCTION: For the treatment of scoliosis, traditional instrumentations such as Cotrel-Dubousset are very rigid and effect spine growth. Recently, spinal Fusionless instrumentation ...

Introduction: The purpose of multimodal and co-registration In MR Neuroimaging is to fuse two or more sets images (T1, T2, fMRI, DTI, pMRI, …) for combining the different information into a composite correlated data set in order to visualization, re-alignment and generating transform to functional Matrix. Multimodal registration and motion correction in spinal cord MR Neuroimag...

Atlantoaxial dislocation is the loss of normal alignment and stability of the first (atlas) and second (axis) cervical vertebrae with respect to each other. Etiologies are various, including trauma, congenital factors, infection, and connective tissue and autoimmune disorders. The condition must be appropriately diagnosed and managed to prevent deformity, spinal instability, and potential neuro...

Our purpose was to examine the effect of modifying symptomatic movement and alignment tests in a sample of people with LBP referred to physical therapy. Fifty-one patients (19 males, 32 females; mean age 37+/-10.59 yr) with LBP and a mean Oswestry Disability Index score of 34+/-18% were examined. The examination included 28 primary tests in which patients used their preferred movement or alignm...