Nonoperative treatment of active spondylolysis in elite athletes with normal X-ray findings: Literature review and results of conservative treatment

European Spine Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 498-504

  Sys, J ^a   Michielsen, J ^a   Bracke, P ^a   Martens, M ^a   Verstreken, J ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bracing; Fatigue fracture; Fracture healing; Spondylolysis; Sports resumption

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLYSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK RESUMPTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRACES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPONDYLOLYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035718455     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005860100326     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. The lumbar spine in backward bending
2. Biomechanical aspects of lumbar spine injuries in athletes: A review
3. Low-back pain in adolescent athletes: Detection of stress injury to the pars interarticularis with SPECT
4. Defect of the pars interarticularis in athletes: A protocol for nonoperative treatment
5. Pars interarticularis stress reaction, spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in gymnasts
6. The child, the spine, and sport
7. Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in young athletes: 28 cases
8. Lumbar spondylolysis: A study of natural progression in athletes
9. Spondylolyse et spondylolisthesis. Contre-indications a la pratique sportive?
10. The fatigue strength of the lumbar neural arch in spondylolysis
11. Spondylolytic fractures
12. Disc space narrowing and the lumbar facet joints
13. Spondylolysis: A skeletal investigation of two population groups
14. Low back pain in college football linemen
15. The natural history of spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
16. Lumbar spondylolysis in adolescent athletes
17. Spondylolysis. Bending of the inferior articular processes of lumbar vertebrae during simulated spinal movements
18. Classification, non-operative and operative treatment of spondylolistheses
19. Low back pain in young athletes: A practical approach
20. Pictorial review: The radiological investigation of lumbar spondylolysis
21. Diagnosis and treatment of delayed and nonunion stress fractures in athletes
22. Pathogenesis of sports-related spondylolisthesis in adolescents: Radiographic and magnetic resonance imaging study
23. Bone SPET of symptomatic lumbar spondylolysis
24. Low back pain in athletes' evaluation of stress reaction and discogenic problems
25. Spondylolysis in the female gymnast
26. Bone imaging in sports medicine: A review
27. Biomechanical testing of pars defect repairs
28. Fatigue characteristics of posterior elements of vertebrae
29. Fracture of the pars interarticularis in adolescent athletes: A clinical-biomechanical analysis
30. Biomechanics of the lumbar spine
31. Aspects radiologiques dynamiques de laspondylolyse lombaire
32. Le spondylolisthesis du sportif
33. Back injuries in female gymnasts
34. Back pain in young athletes: Significant differences from adults in causes and patterns
35. Lumbar spondylolysis in children and adolescents
36. Abdominal muscle training in sport
37. Bone scintigraphy and radiography in young athletes with low back pain
38. External electric stimulation and bracing for treatment of spondylolysis
39. Spondylolysis: What does it mean? A review
40. Unilateral spondylolysis
41. Ermudungsbruche im sport. Eigene erfahrungen und literaturüberblick
42. Early scintigraphic diagnosis of bone stress and fractures in athletic adolescents
43. Lumbar spondylolysis: Occurrence in competitive athletes
44. Modified repair of a defect in spondylolysis or minimal spondylolisthesis by pedicle screw, segmental wire fixation, and bone grafting
45. Reactive sclerosis of a pedicle and spondylolysis in the lumbar spine
46. Treatment of symptomatic spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis with the modified Boston brace
47. The thoracolumbar spine in young elite athletes
48. Back pain in childhood
49. Bone scintigraphy in symptomatic spondylolysis
50. Stress reaction of the pars interarticularis leading to spondylolysis. A cause of adolescent low back pain
51. Fatigue fracture: The basic lesion in isthmic spondylolisthesis