background & importance: spinal deformity is one of the most common disorders among the vertebral diseases that results from unnatural curvatures of spine, such as scoliosis and kyphosis. spinal fusion surgery used most commonly to treat certain types of spinal deformity. here in, we report the efficacy of posterior spinal fusion accompanied by instrumentation in patients with the limitations o...

in this study to determine whether spine stiffness is predictive of clinical results after lumbar spinal fusion for spinal stenosis, a total of 78 patients were measured intraoperatively with kocher clamp manual distraction technique to determine motion segment stiffness then spinal fusion was performed for any loose segment. ‎statistical analysis revealed that stiffness measurement correlate w...

background: cervical spondylotic myelopathy (csm) is a common cause of significant clinical morbidity. the japanese orthopedic association cervical myelopathy evaluation questionnaire (joacmeq) is a measure of health-related quality of life in these patients. objectives: this study aimed to cross-culturally translate and validate the joacmeq in iran. patients and methods: this study was a prosp...