Fat in the lumbar multifidus muscles - predictive value and change following disc prosthesis surgery and multidisciplinary rehabilitation in patients with chronic low back pain and degenerative disc: 2-year follow-up of a randomized trial

BACKGROUND: Evidence is lacking on whether fat infiltration in the multifidus muscles affects outcomes after total disc replacement (TDR) surgery and if it develops after surgery. The aims of this study were 1) to investigate whether pre-treatment multifidus muscle fat infiltration predicts outcome...

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Autores principales: Storheim, Kjersti, Berg, Linda, Hellum, Christian, Gjertsen, Øivind, Neckelmann, Gesche, Espeland, Ansgar, Keller, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5381060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28376754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1505-5

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