European Spine Journal

Financial disclosures of authors involved in spine research: an underestimated source of bias

Ronald H. M. A. Bartels, Hans Delye, Jeroen Boogaarts

Acute low back pain in high school adolescents in Southern Brazil: prevalence and associated factors

Antonio Carlos Onofrio, Marcelo Cozzensa da Silva, Marlos Rodrigues Domingues, Airton José Rombaldi

Development of an assessment schedule for patients with low back-associated leg pain in primary care: a Delphi consensus study

Kika Konstantinou, Samantha L. Hider, Steven Vogel, Ruth Beardmore, Simon Somerville

Can we predict response to the McKenzie method in patients with acute low back pain? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Charles Sheets, Luciana A. C. Machado, Mark Hancock, Chris Maher

A short, intensive cognitive behavioral pain management program reduces health-care use in patients with chronic low back pain

Miranda L. van Hooff, Werner ter Avest, Philip P. Horsting, John O’Dowd, Marinus de Kleuver, Wim van Lankveld, Jacques van Limbeek

Physical fitness, rather than self-reported physical activities, is more strongly associated with low back pain: evidence from a working population

Hans Heneweer, H. Susan J. Picavet, Filip Staes, Henri Kiers, Luc Vanhees

Cross-cultural adaptation and assessment of the reliability and validity of the Core Outcome Measures Index (COMI) for the Brazilian-Portuguese language

L. H. F. Damasceno, P. A. G. Rocha, E. S. Barbosa, C. A. M. Barros, F. T. Canto, H. L. A. Defino, A. F. Mannion

Ten-year survey reveals differences in GP management of neck and back pain

Zoe A. Michaleff, Christopher Harrison, Helena Britt, Chung-Wei Christine Lin, Chris G. Maher

Cost-effectiveness of a classification-based system for sub-acute and chronic low back pain

Adri T. Apeldoorn, Judith E. Bosmans, Raymond W. Ostelo, Henrica C. W. de Vet, Maurits W. van Tulder

Spine stabilisation exercises in the treatment of chronic low back pain: a good clinical outcome is not associated with improved abdominal muscle function

A. F. Mannion, F. Caporaso, N. Pulkovski, H. Sprott

High-intensity zone (HIZ) of lumbar intervertebral disc on T2-weighted magnetic resonance images: spatial distribution, and correlation of distribution with low back pain (LBP)

Zi-Xuan Wang, You-Gu Hu

Factors affecting shoulder–pelvic integration during axial trunk rotation in subjects with recurrent low back pain

Woo-Hyung Park, Yoon Hyuk Kim, Tae Ro Lee, Paul S. Sung

The efficacy of porous hydroxyapatite bone chip as an extender of local bone graft in posterior lumbar interbody fusion

Hyoungmin Kim, Choon-Ki Lee, Jin-Sup Yeom, Jae-Hyup Lee, Ki-Ho Lee, Bong-Soon Chang

RhBMP-2 use in lumbar fusion surgery is associated with transient immediate post-operative leg pain

Fiachra E. Rowan, Natasha O’Malley, Ashley Poynton

Efficacy of interspinous process lumbar fusion with recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 delivered with a synthetic polymer and β-tricalcium phosphate in a rabbit model

Tomiya Matsumoto, Hiromitsu Toyoda, Sho Dohzono, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Shigeyuki Wakitani, Hiroaki Nakamura, Kunio Takaoka

Complications and outcomes of posterior fusion in children with atlantoaxial instability

Ryoji Tauchi, Shiro Imagama, Zenya Ito, Kei Ando, Kenichi Hirano, Akio Muramoto, Hiroki Matsui, Fumihiko Kato, Yasutsugu Yukawa, Koji Sato, Tokumi Kanemura, Hisatake Yoshihara, Mitsuhiro Kamiya, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Naoki Ishiguro

Changed cervical kinematics after fusion surgery

E. Cattrysse, M. Moens, E. Schaillée, J. D’Haens, P. Van Roy

Multilevel oblique corpectomy for cervical spondylotic myelopathy preserves segmental motion

Ari George Chacko, Mathew Joseph, Mazda Keki Turel, Krishna Prabhu, Roy Thomas Daniel, K. S. Jacob

The effect of multilevel anterior cervical fusion on neck motion

Xiao-Dong Wu, Xin-Wei Wang, Wen Yuan, Yang Liu, Nicholas Tsai, Yu-Cheng Peng, Yu Chen, Cong Wang, Shi-Yi Gu, Hua-Jiang Chen, Xu-Hui Zhou, Hai-Long He, Yuan-Yuan Chen

Cage subsidence does not, but cervical lordosis improvement does affect the long-term results of anterior cervical fusion with stand-alone cage for degenerative cervical disc disease: a retrospective study

Wen-Jian Wu, Lei-Sheng Jiang, Yu Liang, Li-Yang Dai

Anatomical study of the cervical nerve roots for posterior foraminotomy: cadaveric study

Mohamed Barakat, Youssef Hussein

Prediction of lower limb functional recovery after laminoplasty for cervical myelopathy: focusing on the 10-s step test

Hiroaki Nakashima, Yasutsugu Yukawa, Keigo Ito, Masaaki Machino, Shunsuke Kanbara, Daigo Morita, Hiroshi Takahashi, Shiro Imagama, Zenya Ito, Naoki Ishiguro, Fumihiko Kato

Morphological changes in disc herniation in the lower cervical spine: an ultrastructural study

Ingrid Sitte, Anton Kathrein, Florian Pedross, Martin C. Freund, Kristian Pfaller, Charles W. Archer

Percutaneous augmented instrumentation of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures: our experience in preventing cement leakage

Huilin Yang, Jun Pan, Zhiyong Sun, Xin Mei, Yan Yang

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Huilin Yang et al. concerning manuscript “Percutaneous augmented instrumentation of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures”, Eur Spine J, 2011 Dec 8 [doi:10.1007/s00586-012-2278-z], by N. Rahamimov et al.

N. Rahamimov

Erratum to: Do early stages of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration really cause instability? Evaluation of an in vitro database

Annette Kettler, F. Rohlmann, C. Ring, C. Mack, H.-J. Wilke

Abstracts of the Meeting of the French Society

Announcements for issue 7, 2012