Altered trunk muscle reflexes have been observed in patients with low back pain (LBP). Altered reflexes may contribute to impaired postural control, and possibly recurrence of LBP. Specific stabilization exercise (SSE) programs have been shown to decrease the risk of LBP recurrence in a select group of patients with acute, first episode LBP. It is not known if trunk muscle reflex responses impr...

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is a traditional descriptor for texture analysis that gained attention in the last decade. Being robust to several properties such as invariance to illumination translation and scaling, LBPs achieved stateof-the-art results in several applications. However, LBPs are not able to capture high-level features from the image, merely encoding features with low abstraction l...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding protein (LBP) is an acute-phase protein that initiates an immune response after recognition of bacterial LPS. Here, we report the crystal structure of murine LBP at 2.9 Å resolution. Several structural differences were observed between LBP and the related bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), and the LBP C-terminal domain contained a negatively cha...

INTRODUCTION Delayed muscle onsets have been observed in patients with LBP in experiments involving sudden loading of the trunk [1,2]. A ltered muscle responses contribute to impaired postural control and instability that may be a contributing factor to the recurrence of LBP [1]. SE programs have been shown to decrease the risk of LBP recurrence in a select group of patients with acute, first e...

Introduction: Several studies have demonstrated improvement in low back pain (LBP) after decompression surgery for lower extremity symptoms in lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS); however, the influence of neuropathic disorders on LBP is uncertain. Aim of this study is to identify the features of motion-induced and walking-induced LBP in patients with LSS and to assess whether neuropathic LBP develops...

BACKGROUND A previous study examined the relationship between the sacral inclination angle (SIA), lumbosacral angle (LSA) and sacral horizontal angle (SHA) and spinal mobility in acute low back pain and chronic low back pain patients. We chose to investigate the lumbar lordosis angle, segmental lumbar lordosis angle, SIA, LSA and SHA in acute and chronic low back pain (LBP) patients as well as ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa backgrounds : lumbar disc herniation (ldh) is the most common surgical intervention of spine surgery. during few days of the operation, most patients experience worrying low back pain ( lbp) and radicular leg pain (rlp). applying liquid form of bupivacaine in the vicinity of surgical field could be effective on pain relief only for few hours after o...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional. PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) in the primary care setting with emphasis on the socio-demographic contributing factors and impact of LBP on lifestyle habits. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE LBP is one of the most common medical conditions seen in the Primary Health Care Clinic. METHODS A representative sample of...

The aim of this study was to analyze the association between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in IL1B (rs1143 634) and IL1RN (rs2234677) with chronic low back pain (LBP) in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A total of 406 war veterans from 1991-1995 war in Croatia participated in this study. They were divided into four groups, according to psychiatric interview, psychometric te...

BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) is a major health problem. Effective treatment of acute LBP is important because it prevents patients from developing chronic LBP, the stage of LBP that requires costly and more complex treatment. Physiotherapists commonly use a system of diagnosis and exercise prescription called the McKenzie Method to manage patients with LBP. However, there is insufficient evid...