BMJ

Early multimodal rehabilitation following lumbar disc surgery: a randomised clinical trial comparing the effects of two exercise programmes on clinical outcome and lumbar ...

Background The optimal components of postoperative exercise programmes following single-level lumbar discectomy have not been identified. Facilitating lumbar multifidus (LM) function after discectomy ...
Nature

The relationships between physical activity, lumbar multifidus muscle morphology, and low back pain from childhood to early adulthood: a 12-year longitudinal study

We investigated the longitudinal associations between physical activity (PA), lumbar multifidus morphology, and impactful low back pain (LBP) in young people. Nine-year-old children were recruited ...
Kaleido Scope

New chronic low back pain treatment that restores muscle function and improves spine stability available for Alabamians

“This is a totally new way of treating back pain,” said Prentiss Lawson Jr., M.D., an associate professor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and program director of the ...
Nature

Imaging analysis and predictive nomogram construction for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with severe clinical symptom based on propensity score matching

Intervertebral disc degeneration, local lumbar segmental morphology changes, and atrophy of multifidus muscle have been considered to be associated with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. However, ...