Lower back pain is a leading cause of disability and is one of the reasons for the substantial
socioeconomic burden. The etiology of intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is …

Musculoskeletal models have indispensable applications in occupational risk assessment/
management and clinical treatment/rehabilitation programs. To estimate muscle forces and …

Radiofrequency ablation of the medial branch is commonly used to treat chronic low back
pain involving facet joints, which accounts for 12% to 37% of the total cases of chronic low …

Passive finite element (FE) models of the spine are commonly used to simulate intact and
various pre-and postoperative pathological conditions. Being devoid of muscles, these …

Purpose This study aimed to explore associations between ABO blood type and
postoperative adjacent segment degeneration/disease (ASD) following lumbar spine fusion …

Purpose This study exploits a novel musculoskeletal finite element (MS-FE) spine model to
evaluate the post-fusion (L4–L5) alterations in adjacent segment kinetics. Methods Unlike …

Full-body and lower-extremity human musculoskeletal models require feet ground reaction
forces (GRFs) and centers of pressure (CoPs) as inputs to predict muscle forces and joint …

Background With the rapid development of science and technology, artificial intelligence (AI)
has been widely used in the diagnosis and prognosis of various spine diseases. It has been …

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is one of the most frequent causes of low back pain.
No treatment is currently available to delay the progression of IDD. Conservative treatment …

Purposes To analyze the clinical and radiographic risk factors that might predict incomplete
clinical improvement after transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy (TELD). Methods A …