Study Design. Prospective study. Objective. To examine the efficacy of teriparatide or
bisphosphonate treatment to reduce pedicle screw (PS) loosening after instrumented lumbar …

Study Design. Prospective trial. Objective. To examine the clinical efficacy of teriparatide for
bone union after instrumented lumbar posterolateral fusion using local bone grafting in …

Purpose Pain from osteoarthritis (OA) is generally classified as nociceptive (inflammatory).
Animal models of knee OA have shown that sensory nerve fibers innervating the knee are …

Background School screening for scoliosis is a powerful tool that can be used to identify
children who may have scoliosis. There have been no reports on the recent prevalence of …

Study Design. Analysis of the estrogen receptor gene of girls with idiopathic scoliosis.
Objectives. To determine whether estrogen receptor gene polymorphisms correlate with curve …

Pain, the primary symptom of osteoarthritis (OA), reduces both the quality and quantity of life
for patients. The pathophysiology of OA pain is complex and often difficult to explain solely …

Progressive scoliosis in young children has been treated with "spinal instrumentation
without fusion" to avoid interference with spinal growth. Patients have to undergo a series of …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: DTI can provide valuable structural information that may
become an innovative tool in evaluating lumbar foraminal nerve root entrapment. The …

Study Design. A prospective trial of preoperative MRI study in patients with “idiopathic”
scoliosis. Objectives. To investigate the prevalence of neural axis malformations and the clinical …

Study Design. Prospective randomized trial. Objective. To examine the effect of the tumor
necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) inhibitor, etanercept, on radicular pain by its epidural …