OBJECTIVE To compare spinopelvic parameters in young adult patients with spondylolysis to those in age-matched patients without spondylolysis and investigate the clinical impact of sagittal spinopelvic parameters in patients with L5 spondylolysis. METHODS From 2009 to 2012, a total of 198 young adult male patients with spondylolysis were identified. Eighty age-matched patients without spondyl...

BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence of spondylolysis in a selected population and evaluate the association of spondylolysis with low back pain (LBP). Spondylolysis is widespread in the general population but the prevalence of spondylolysis and its relationship with LBP in the Korean population is controversial. METHODS A sample of 855 participants (age, 20 to 86 years) from our medical cen...

We studied the lumbar spines of 117 adults (39 women and 78 men) with spondylolysis unrelated to low back pain using multidetector computed tomography (CT). Of the 117 subjects with spondylolysis, including five with multiple-level spondylolysis, there were 124 vertebrae with spondylolysis. In adult lumbar spines with unilateral spondylolysis, there was no significant difference between the inc...

STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of lumbar spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in a general adult population unrelated to lower back pain as evaluated by multidetector computed tomography. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE There is a significant paucity of information related to the prevalence of spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis and its degenerativ...

BACKGROUND Spondylolysis is a common cause of low back pain and significant loss of play in the young athlete. Its incidence in hockey players has not been reported. This study reviewed the incidence and potential causative factors of low back pain and spondylolysis in an elite junior-level ice hockey program over a 15-year period. HYPOTHESIS Because of the repetitive movements of the lower s...

Since the publication of Evidence-based Sports Medicine, there have been a number of publications addressing the subject of spondylolysis. Although much of this literature expands the cumulative knowledge base on spondylolysis, there are still no published controlled trials on the treatment of spondylolysis in the athlete nor any studies comparing the most widely used diagnostic imaging modalit...

Spondylolysis is reported as a stress fracture of the pars interarticularis with a strong hereditary basis. Three cases of lumbar spondylolysis in juveniles from the same family are reported, and the genetics of the condition are reviewed. The first boy, a 13-year-old soccer player, was diagnosed with terminal stage L5 bilateral spondylolysis with grade 1 slippage. The second boy, a 10-year-old...

Background Data: Spondylolysis is a stress fracture of the pars interarticularis that occurs in 2–5% population. Surgical techniques spondylolysis repair have been challenging last decades.

PURPOSE Spondylolysis is known to be a part of a disease process, which describes a defect in the pars interarticularis of vertebra. We aimed to use quantitative computed tomography (QCT) to measure vertebral body bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with lumbar spondylolysis and compare it with readings in controls. METHODS Forty symptomatic patients with lumbar spondylolysis aged 18-52 ye...

We report a case of bilateral three-level lumbar spondylolysis that was directly repaired by use of hook-screw technique. The patient complained of low back pain for 2 years that progressively worsened and was exacerbated with standing and walking. He also mentioned bilateral sciatalgia. The neurological examination was normal. Interestingly, we found bilateral lumbar spondylolysis in L3, L4, a...