Correlation of acute back pain and sagittal balance acute sagittal imbalance: A new term?

Authors : Kemal Paksoy, Ahmet Atilla Abdioğlu

Pages : 108-111

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Publication Date : 2024-03-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of acute low back pain on spinopelvic parameters. Pre-pain and post-pain scoliosis radiographs of the patients who applied with the complaint of low back pain of acute onset (less than 12 weeks) were taken. Measurements of the spinopel-vic parameters were performed for each patient, including pelvic incidence (PI), sacral slope (SS), pelvic tilt (PT), lumbar lordosis (LL), and the sagittal vertical axis (SVA). 65 patients were included in the study. In the statistical study in acute low back pain, changes in SVA, PT, LL, and SS were found to be significant (p = 0.014, 0.006, 0.003, 0.003) Lumbar lordosis decreases as a result of pathologies, such as asymmetric disc degeneration and facet joint hypertrophy that occur in a chronic process, and the sagittal imbalance appears as a consequence of all these. After that, the mechanisms utilized to compensate for the resulting sagittal imbalance led to low back pain. However, differently, in the case of acute low back pain, the patient changes the sagittal alignment first, to yield a less painful posture.
Keywords : Acute Back Pain, Sagittal Balance, Spinopelvic Parameters

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