European Spine Journal

Poena, the goddess of divine retribution

R. Gunzburg

The effect of daily walking steps on preventing neck and low back pain in sedentary workers: a 1-year prospective cohort study

Ekalak Sitthipornvorakul, Prawit Janwantanakul, Vitool Lohsoonthorn

Association between home posture habits and low back pain in high school adolescents

Ney Meziat Filho, Evandro Silva Coutinho, Gulnar Azevedo e Silva

The prognostic value of electrodiagnostic testing in patients with sciatica receiving physical therapy

Nathan J. Savage, Julie M. Fritz, John C. Kircher, Anne Thackeray

Pain location matters: the impact of leg pain on health care use, work disability and quality of life in patients with low back pain

Samantha L. Hider, David G. T. Whitehurst, Elaine Thomas, Nadine E. Foster

The association between symptom severity and physical activity participation in people seeking care for acute low back pain

Juliana Leme Gomes, M. Kingma, S. J. Kamper, C. G. Maher, P. H. Ferreira, A. P. Marques, M. L. Ferreira

Is low back pain associated with worse health-related quality of life 6 months later?

Paul S. Nolet, Vicki L. Kristman, Pierre Côté, Linda J. Carroll, J. David Cassidy

Has overweight any influence on the effectiveness of conservative treatment in patients with low back pain?

Dorothea Daentzer, Tina Hohls, Christine Noll

Body mass index is associated with low back pain in childhood and adolescence: a birth cohort study with a 6-year follow-up in Niigata City, Japan

Atsuki Sano, Toru Hirano, Kei Watanabe, Naoto Endo, Takui Ito, Naohito Tanabe

Prevalence of neck and low back pain in community-dwelling adults in Spain: an updated population-based national study (2009/10–2011/12)

Domingo Palacios-Ceña, Cristina Alonso-Blanco, Valentín Hernández-Barrera, Pilar Carrasco-Garrido, Rodrigo Jiménez-García, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

Age-related cutoffs for cervical movement behaviour to distinguish chronic idiopathic neck pain patients from unimpaired subjects

Daniel Niederer, Lutz Vogt, Jan Wilke, Marcus Rickert, Winfried Banzer

Evaluation of quality of life and neuropathic pain in patients with low back pain using the Japanese Orthopedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire

Akihiko Hiyama, Masahiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Katoh, Masato Sato, Daisuke Sakai, Joji Mochida

Documenting female spine motion during coitus with a commentary on the implications for the low back pain patient

Natalie Sidorkewicz, Stuart M. McGill

Referred pain location depends on the affected section of the sacroiliac joint

Daisuke Kurosawa, Eiichi Murakami, Toshimi Aizawa

Risk factors for wound infection in surgery for spinal metastasis

S. Kumar, D. van Popta, R. Rodrigues-Pinto, J. Stephenson, S. Mohammad, I. Siddique, R. R. Verma

Intrawound vancomycin to prevent infections after spine surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nathan Evaniew, Moin Khan, Brian Drew, Devin Peterson, Mohit Bhandari, Michelle Ghert

Surgical-site infection in spinal injury: incidence and risk factors in a prospective cohort of 518 patients

Arnaud Dubory, Hadrien Giorgi, Axel Walter, Benjamin Bouyer, Matthieu Vassal, Fahed Zairi, Alexandre Dhenin, Michael Grelat, Nicolas Lonjon, Cyril Dauzac, Guillaume Lonjon

Transforaminal lumbar interbody debridement and fusion for the treatment of infective spondylodiscitis in the lumbar spine

Meng-Ling Lu, Chi-Chien Niu, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Tsai-Sheng Fu, Lih-Huei Chen, Wen-Jer Chen

Postoperative wound infection after posterior spinal instrumentation: analysis of long-term treatment outcomes

Shih-Hao Chen, Chen-Hsiang Lee, Kuo-Chin Huang, Pang-Hsin Hsieh, Shan-Yin Tsai

Cervical spondylodiscitis: change in clinical picture and operative management during the last two decades. A series of 50 patients and review of literature

M. Shousha, C. Heyde, H. Boehm

Revision surgery for spinal tuberculosis with secondary deformity after treatment with debridement, instrumentation, and fusion

Tingxian Ling, Limin Liu, Xi Yang, Zhe Qiang, Xinxing Hu, Yonggang An

Posterior vertebral column resection and intraoperative manual traction to correct severe post-tubercular rigid spinal deformities incurred during childhood: minimum 2-year follow-up

Guohua Lü, Bing Wang, Yawei Li, Lei Li, Hong Zhang, Ivan Cheng

Distinctive spine abnormalities in patients with Goldenhar syndrome: tomographic assessment

Ali Al Kaissi, Farid Ben Chehida, Rudolf Ganger, Klaus Klaushofer, Franz Grill

Merits of different anatomical landmarks for correct numbering of the lumbar vertebrae in lumbosacral transitional anomalies

Nadja A. Farshad-Amacker, Alexander Aichmair, Richard J. Herzog, Mazda Farshad

Salvage of failed odontoid fixation through anterior C1/C2 transarticular screws

K. M. I. Salem, I. Collins, B. M. Boszczyk

Expert’s comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled ‘‘Salvage of failed odontoid fixation through anterior C1/C2 transarticular screws” (by Khalid M. I. Salem et al.)

Max Aebi

Letter to the Editor concerning: “A comprehensive review of thoracic deformity parameters in scoliosis” by Jonathan A. Harris, Oscar H. Mayer, Suken A. Shah, Robert M. Campbell Jr., Sriram Balasubramanian. Eur Spine J (2014) 23:2594–2602, DOI 10.1007/s00586-014-3580-8

Theodoros B. Grivas

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of T. B. Grivas concerning “A comprehensive review of thoracic deformity parameters in scoliosis” by Harris JA, et al. Eur Spine J (2014): DOI 10.1007/s00586-014-3580-8

Jonathan A. Harris

Letter to editor concerning “Symptomatic epidural hematoma after lumbar decompression surgery” by Kao FC et al (2014) Eur Spine J. doi:10.1007/s00586-014-3297-8

N. V. Todd

Answer to the Letter to Editor of N. Todd concerning “Symptomatic epidural hematoma after lumbar decompression surgery” by Kao FC et al., Eur Spine J (2014), doi:10.1007/s00586-014-3297-8

Tsung-Ting Tsai

5th International Congress Biotechnologies for Spinal Surgery (BIOSPINE 2015)

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