Spinal cord stimulation has been utilized for over 40 years and has been proven to provide therapeutically effective pain relief from chronic conditions like failed back surgery, regional pain syndromes and neuralgias. Several measurable outcomes in VAS pain scores, disability scores and quality of life scales have shown consistent improvement with SCS in patients with back pain and leg pain [1...

OBJECTIVE Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) often results in reduced functional performance. There is growing evidence for the use of foot orthoses to treat this multifactorial condition. In this study, the immediate effects of foot orthoses on functional performance and the association of foot posture and footwear with improvements in function were evaluated. METHODS Fifty-two individuals ...

The clinical results after high tibial osteotomy for the treatment of symptomatic varus gonarthrosis are unpredictable. Although preoperative gait analysis has been shown to be useful in predicting successful outcome after high tibial osteotomy, there are no readily available preoperative clinical tests for predicting success. The authors did a study to determine the effects of an offset short-...

BACKGROUND Adult scoliosis is sometimes associated with back pain. Recently, the Peak™ Scoliosis Brace was designed to alleviate pain in adult patients with scoliosis. OBJECTIVES To test the efficacy of the Peak Scoliosis Brace in reducing pain in adult scoliosis patients. STUDY DESIGN Prospective experimental cohort study. METHODS A total of 20 adult females with back pain secondary to i...

BACKGROUND High frequency spinal cord stimulation at 10 kHz (HF10 therapy) represents a prominent advance in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy, having demonstrated enhanced efficacy in patients with back and leg pain and pain relief without paresthesia that is sustained at 24 months post implant. OBJECTIVE To report on the effectiveness HF10 SCS therapy for a wide range of intractable pai...

Exercise-related leg pain is a common and yet difficult management problem in sports medicine. There are many common causes of such symptoms including stress fractures and muscle compartment syndromes. There are also a number of less common but important conditions including popliteal artery entrapment and nerve entrapment syndromes. Even for an astute clinician, distinction between the differe...

Background. Lower-limb edema is recognized as an untoward side effect of intrathecal opioid therapy. Cellulitis, an acute, spreading pyogenic inflammation of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue, predisposed by persistent leg edema, can become problematic in patients on intraspinal opioid infusion therapy. Objective. To present a case of recurrent cellulitis in an elderly lady with persistent leg...

[Purpose] This study developed a modified active leg-raising exercise to decrease lumbar lordosis and assessed its effectiveness in a patient with low back pain and excessive lumbar lordosis. [Subject and Methods] The subject was a 56-year-old woman with excessive lordosis, who complained of continuous severe LBP pain at the L5 level for 1 year. The subject performed the modified active leg-rai...

A case involving a retired, elderly male war veteran with a symptomatic peroneus brevis muscle hernia causing superficial peroneal nerve compression with chosen surgical management is presented. Symptomatic muscle hernias of the extremities occur most commonly in the leg and are a rare cause of chronic leg pain. Historically, treating military surgeons pioneered the early documentation of leg h...