Athletes with unilateral spondylolysis are at risk of stress fracture at the contralateral pedicle and pars interarticularis: A clinical and biomechanical study

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 583-590

  Sairyo, Koichi ^a,b,c   Katoh, Shinsuke ^a   Sasa, Takahiro ^a   Yasui, Natsuo ^a   Goel, Vijay K ^b   Vadapalli, Sasidhar ^b   Masuda, Akiyoshi ^b   Biyani, Ashok ^c   Ebraheim, Nabil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Pars interarticularis; Pedicle; Spondylolysis; Stress fracture; Unilateral

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROSIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; TRUNK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; SPONDYLOLYSIS;

EID: 15744399796     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546504269035     Document Type: Article

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