The Effect of Restoration of Lumbar Spine Lordosis During Fixation on Clinical Outcome of Patients

Albriki, Abdurhman Mohamed; Ismaeil, Adel Saad; Makia, Mansour Abdeimagid; Samir, Mohamed Ahmed

doi:10.21608/zumj.2019.16446.1471

The Effect of Restoration of Lumbar Spine Lordosis During Fixation on Clinical Outcome of Patients

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ neurosurgery department ,facualty of medicine,zagazig

² Department of Neurosurgery Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University,

³ Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Department of Neurosurgery, Sharkia Egypt

10.21608/zumj.2019.16446.1471

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Background: Inadequate restoring of lumbar lordosis during lumbar fusion surgery may result in mechanical low back pain, sagittal unbalance and adjacent segment degeneration(1).
Objective: The aim of this work is to study the effect of restoration of adequate lumbar spine lordosis on patient's outcome.
Patient & Methods The study was included 24 patients with degenerative lumbar spine disorder, who underwent surgical decompression with fixation and fusion after the failure of conservative management for back pain with or without radicular pain. From June 2018 to April 2019 in Zagazig university hospital.
Results: Significant improvement was gotten after 6 weeks and 12 weeks follow up VAS comparing with pre-operative VAS (P

Keywords