Spine
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Experimental animal study of spinal cord injury (SCI), using a cell delivery system. ⋯ The combination of intrathecal transplantation of CD133 cells and application of a magnetic field at the site of injury is a possible therapeutic strategy to treat rat SCI and may therefore find application in clinical settings.
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A retrospective observational study. ⋯ The spinal changes with paravertebral ligament ossification in VDRR were described in this study. Four different gene mutations related to the PHEX gene were detected in them. The presence of these changes was suggestive of a more severe systemic disease.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of core stability exercises on feed-forward activation of deep abdominal muscles in chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.
A randomized controlled trial. ⋯ Abdominal muscle onset was largely unaffected by 8 weeks of exercises in chronic LBP patients. There was no association between change in onset and LBP. Large individual variations in activation pattern of the deep abdominal muscles may justify exploration of differential effects in subgroups of LBP.