Relationship between pain and intersegmental spinal motion characteristics in low-back pain subjects

Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine the relationship between low-back pain and spinal motion. Percutaneous intra-pedicle screws were placed into the right and left L4 (or L5) and S1 segments of nine chronic low-back pain patients. Each of the subjects performed a standard battery of spinal motions including bending in all planes. At the completion of each desired motion, each subject was asked to self-report the pain they experienced on a 10 …

Authors

Dickey JP; Pierrynowski MR; Galea V; Bednar DA; Yang SX

Volume

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

January 1, 2000

DOI

10.1109/icsmc.2000.884999

Name of conference

SMC 2000 Conference Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 'Cybernetics Evolving to Systems, Humans, Organizations, and their Complex Interactions' (Cat. No.00CH37166)