Spine
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The article will summarize research that has supported the role of pain catastrophizing and perceived injustice as risk factors for problematic recovery after whiplash injury. ⋯ A challenge for future research will be the development and evaluation of risk factor-targeted interventions aimed at reducing catastrophizing and perceived injustice to improve recovery trajectories after whiplash injury.
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Prospective, longitudinal cohort study. ⋯ Formation of anti-BMP-2 antibodies was low and transient. No neutralizing antibodies were observed. Formation of antibodies did not affect fusion success or appear to have clinical sequelae.
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A nonsystematic review of the literature. ⋯ Continued work is needed in developing appropriate animal models to investigate chronic pain from whiplash injuries and care must be taken to determine whether such models aim to model the injury event or the pain symptoms.
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The study design was descriptive. ⋯ Exercise, education, and learning with a behavioral medicine approach should be focused on in the future studies of acute WAD management.
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Prospective magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of patients low back pain (LBP) requiring discography as part of their routine clinical diagnoses and asymptomatic age-matched volunteers. ⋯ T1ρ and OP are quantitative measures of degeneration that are consistent across both control subjects and LBP patients. A significant and strong correlation exists between T1ρ values and in vivo OP measurements obtained by discography in LBP patients.