European Spine Journal

Animal models for spinal research

Hans-Joachim Wilke

Are animal models useful for studying human disc disorders/degeneration?

Mauro Alini, Stephen M. Eisenstein, Keita Ito, Christopher Little, A. Annette Kettler, Koichi Masuda, James Melrose, Jim Ralphs, Ian Stokes, Hans Joachim Wilke

Effects of a cervical disc prosthesis on maintaining sagittal alignment of the functional spinal unit and overall sagittal balance of the cervical spine

Seok Woo Kim, Jae Hyuk Shin, Jose Joefrey Arbatin, Moon Soo Park, Yung Khee Chung, Paul C. McAfee

Consequences of patient position in the radiographic measurement of artificial disc replacement angles

Victor Kosmopoulos, John McManus, Constantin Schizas

Complications and reoperations of the SB Charité lumbar disc prosthesis: experience in 75 patients

Ilona M. Punt, Violette M. Visser, Lodewijk W. van Rhijn, Steven M. Kurtz, Jop Antonis, Geert Willem H. Schurink, André van Ooij

Analysis of post-operative pain patterns following total lumbar disc replacement: results from fluoroscopically guided spine infiltrations

Christoph J. Siepe, Andreas Korge, Frank Grochulla, Christoph Mehren, H. Michael Mayer

Prognosis of subacute low back pain patients according to pain response

Ingelise Schmidt, Lotte Rechter, Vivian Kjaer Hansen, Jane Andreasen, Kim Overvad

Low back pain and its risk indicators: a survey of 7,040 Finnish male conscripts

Ville M. Mattila, Timo Sahi, Vesa Jormanainen, Harri Pihlajamäki

Predictive validity of initial fear avoidance beliefs in patients with low back pain receiving physical therapy: is the FABQ a useful screening tool for identifying patients at risk for a poor recovery?

Joshua A. Cleland, Julie M. Fritz, Gerard P. Brennan

Neck pain and disability due to neck pain: what is the relation?

René Fejer, Jan Hartvigsen

Pain intensity and severe pain in young immigrant patients with long-standing back pain

Monica Löfvander, Marina Taloyan

The relationship between pain-related fear and lumbar flexion during natural recovery from low back pain

James S. Thomas, Christopher R. France

What comprises a good outcome in spinal surgery? A preliminary survey among spine surgeons of the SSE and European spine patients

M. Haefeli, A. Elfering, M. Aebi, B. J. C. Freeman, P. Fritzell, J. Guimaraes Consciencia, C. Lamartina, M. Mayer, T. Lund, N. Boos

Higher preoperative Oswestry Disability Index is associated with better surgical outcome in upper lumbar disc herniations

Hooshang Saberi, Arash Vatankhahan Isfahani

Kinematic and temporal interactions of the lumbar spine and hip during trunk extension in healthy male subjects

Stephan Milosavljevic, Poonam Pal, David Bain, Gillian Johnson

Surgical results of anterior corpectomy in the aged patients with cervical myelopathy

Jun Lu, Xiaotao Wu, Yonggang Li, Xiangfei Kong 

Radiographic changes in the lumbar spine in former professional football players: a comparative and matched controlled study

Alpaslan Öztürk, Yüksel Özkan, Recai M. Özdemir, Nazan Yalçın, Semra Akgöz, Vedat Saraç, Serkan Aykut

In Memoria Paul I. J. M. Wuisman

Barend J. van Royen

Frameless stereotaxy in a transmandibular, circumglossal, retropharyngeal cervical decompression in a Klippel-Feil patient: technical note

Daniel M. Sciubba, Ira M. Garonzik, Ian Suk, Gary L. Gallia, Anthony Tufaro, Jean Paul Wolinsky, Alex Taghva, Ziya L. Gokaslan

Abstracts of the 21st National Congress on Spinal Surgery

The GRAMMER European Spine Journal Award 2008

Hans-Joachim Wilke