ALLMedicine™ Mechanical Back Pain Center

Jun 18th, 2021 - To investigate the effect of surgical stabilization for patients with metastatic spinal disease on objective mobility metrics. A retrospective chart review identified patients who had mechanical back pain from metastatic spinal disease and underwe...

May 25th, 2021 - Many patients with axial spondylarthritis (axSpA) experience lengthy diagnostic delays upwards of 14 years. (5-14 years). Screening tools for axSpA have been proposed for use in primary care settings, but whether this approach could be implemented...

May 2nd, 2021 - Survival of cancer patients continues to improve with systemic treatment advancements, leading to an increase in cancer-related complications such as pathological spinal fractures. In this study, the authors aimed to evaluate the outcome of percut...

Apr 4th, 2021 - The success rate of decompression surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) has been reported to vary from 60 to 80%. The purpose of this study was to analyze the predictors for clinical outcomes after tubular surgery for endoscopic decompression (...

Mar 31st, 2021 - The objective was to introduce a new endoscopic technique-interspinous plasty for low back pain from Baastrup's disease; based on clinical manifestations, imaging findings and diagnostic test, to discuss a detailed diagnostic procedure for Baastru...

Aug 23rd, 2017 - The manifestation of multiple features of spondyloarthritis (SpA) in patients with chronic back pain is not sufficient for a diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis, according to a report from Zineb Ez-Zaitouni and associates. In a group of 250 peopl.

Sep 24th, 2015 - Hello. I'm Dr Jonathan Kay, professor of medicine and director of clinical research in the Division of Rheumatology at UMass Memorial Medical Center in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, both in Worcester, Massachusetts. Back pain is ...

Jul 12th, 2013 - MADRID – There is no added benefit of performing spinal MRI in the diagnosis of spondyloarthritis, the results of an international, multicenter study suggest. Around one-quarter of patients with nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) w.

May 12th, 2011 - CHICAGO – Despite dramatic clinical benefit, the standard treatments for ankylosing spondylitis do not appear to alter the natural history of the disease. "We’d like to believe we’re actually doing something substantial for our patients in additio.

May 1st, 2011 - CHICAGO – Despite dramatic clinical benefit, the standard treatments for ankylosing spondylitis do not appear to alter the natural history of the disease. “We'd like to believe we're actually doing something substantial for our patients in additio.