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Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study

BACKGROUND: Gluteal muscle contracture (GMC) may cause abnormal spinal alignment as well as hip and pelvic deformities. The spine-pelvis alignment of GMC patients is unclear. This study aimed to describe the spine-pelvis sagittal alignment in patients with GMC and to explore the impact of GMC on the...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jiyi, Huang, Pengzhou, Jiang, Guanwei, Gao, Liang, Zhang, Mengdi, Dong, Xueping, Zhang, Wentao, Zhang, Xintao
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Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35310171
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13093
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author Liu, Jiyi
Huang, Pengzhou
Jiang, Guanwei
Gao, Liang
Zhang, Mengdi
Dong, Xueping
Zhang, Wentao
Zhang, Xintao
author_facet Liu, Jiyi
Huang, Pengzhou
Jiang, Guanwei
Gao, Liang
Zhang, Mengdi
Dong, Xueping
Zhang, Wentao
Zhang, Xintao
author_sort Liu, Jiyi
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description BACKGROUND: Gluteal muscle contracture (GMC) may cause abnormal spinal alignment as well as hip and pelvic deformities. The spine-pelvis alignment of GMC patients is unclear. This study aimed to describe the spine-pelvis sagittal alignment in patients with GMC and to explore the impact of GMC on the pathogenesis of low back pain (LBP). METHODS: Radiological analysis was performed in 100 patients with GMC and 100 asymptomatic volunteers who acted as the control group. Sagittal parameters were measured by two independent raters and their averages were presented on lateral radiographs of the whole spine, including pelvic incidence (PI), sagittal vertical axis (SVA), pelvic tilt (PT), lumbar lordosis (LL), sacral slope (SS), thoracic kyphosis (TK), and the relationship between PI and LL (expressed as PI-LL). All cases were categorized into one of three classes based on the apex position of lumbar lordosis and were further divided into three groups by the PI value. The GMC and control parameters were compared and the correlations between the parameters in the GMC group were analysed. RESULTS: The PI value of the GMC group was significantly less than that of the control group (42.38 ± 10.90° vs 45.68 ± 7.49°, P < 0.05). There was no difference found between the key parameters (SVA, PT, and PI-LL), which correlated with outcomes in adult deformity. No differences of SS were found between the two groups (P > 0.05). The GMC group showed lower average LL (42.77 ± 10.97° vs 46.41 ± 9.07°) and TK (17.34 ± 9.50° vs 20.45 ± 8.02°) compared with the control group (P < 0.05). LL was correlated with PI, SS, PT, TK (P < 0.01) and SVA (P < 0.05). TK and SVA were not correlated with any parameters except LL and pairwise correlations were found among PI, SS, and PT. There were no differences found between the distributions of the lumbar lordosis apex of GMC and the control but the range of SS in apex groups 3 and 4 did differ. GMC patients had the most small-PI value (44%) while approximately 64% of asymptomatic individuals had a normal PI. Interobserver variability was sufficient for all parameters calculated by the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). CONCLUSIONS: Gluteal muscle contracture causes a low PI which may contribute to low back pain. Patients with GMC present the same global sagittal spinal-pelvic balance as asymptomatic individuals due to a compensatory mechanism through excessive flat lumbar and thoracic curves. Future studies on the relationship between spinal-pelvic sagittal and coronal alignment and low back pain are needed to understand the mechanical forces involved in the onset of GMC.
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spelling pubmed-89323072022-03-19 Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study Liu, Jiyi Huang, Pengzhou Jiang, Guanwei Gao, Liang Zhang, Mengdi Dong, Xueping Zhang, Wentao Zhang, Xintao PeerJ Orthopedics BACKGROUND: Gluteal muscle contracture (GMC) may cause abnormal spinal alignment as well as hip and pelvic deformities. The spine-pelvis alignment of GMC patients is unclear. This study aimed to describe the spine-pelvis sagittal alignment in patients with GMC and to explore the impact of GMC on the pathogenesis of low back pain (LBP). METHODS: Radiological analysis was performed in 100 patients with GMC and 100 asymptomatic volunteers who acted as the control group. Sagittal parameters were measured by two independent raters and their averages were presented on lateral radiographs of the whole spine, including pelvic incidence (PI), sagittal vertical axis (SVA), pelvic tilt (PT), lumbar lordosis (LL), sacral slope (SS), thoracic kyphosis (TK), and the relationship between PI and LL (expressed as PI-LL). All cases were categorized into one of three classes based on the apex position of lumbar lordosis and were further divided into three groups by the PI value. The GMC and control parameters were compared and the correlations between the parameters in the GMC group were analysed. RESULTS: The PI value of the GMC group was significantly less than that of the control group (42.38 ± 10.90° vs 45.68 ± 7.49°, P < 0.05). There was no difference found between the key parameters (SVA, PT, and PI-LL), which correlated with outcomes in adult deformity. No differences of SS were found between the two groups (P > 0.05). The GMC group showed lower average LL (42.77 ± 10.97° vs 46.41 ± 9.07°) and TK (17.34 ± 9.50° vs 20.45 ± 8.02°) compared with the control group (P < 0.05). LL was correlated with PI, SS, PT, TK (P < 0.01) and SVA (P < 0.05). TK and SVA were not correlated with any parameters except LL and pairwise correlations were found among PI, SS, and PT. There were no differences found between the distributions of the lumbar lordosis apex of GMC and the control but the range of SS in apex groups 3 and 4 did differ. GMC patients had the most small-PI value (44%) while approximately 64% of asymptomatic individuals had a normal PI. Interobserver variability was sufficient for all parameters calculated by the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). CONCLUSIONS: Gluteal muscle contracture causes a low PI which may contribute to low back pain. Patients with GMC present the same global sagittal spinal-pelvic balance as asymptomatic individuals due to a compensatory mechanism through excessive flat lumbar and thoracic curves. Future studies on the relationship between spinal-pelvic sagittal and coronal alignment and low back pain are needed to understand the mechanical forces involved in the onset of GMC. PeerJ Inc. 2022-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8932307/ /pubmed/35310171 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13093 Text en © 2022 Liu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Orthopedics
Liu, Jiyi
Huang, Pengzhou
Jiang, Guanwei
Gao, Liang
Zhang, Mengdi
Dong, Xueping
Zhang, Wentao
Zhang, Xintao
Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
title Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
title_full Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
title_fullStr Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
title_full_unstemmed Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
title_short Spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
title_sort spinal-pelvic sagittal parameters in patients with gluteal muscle contracture: an imaging study
topic Orthopedics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35310171
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13093
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