Open Access<p>Lumbar Muscle Fat Content Has More Correlations with Living Quality than Sagittal Vertical Axis in Elderly Patients with Degenerative Lumbar Disorders</p>
Author(s) -
Weiguo Zhu,
Wei Wang,
Chao Kong,
Wang Yu,
Pan Fang,
Shibao Lu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s265826
Subject(s) - medicine , oswestry disability index , sagittal plane , lumbar , low back pain , physical therapy , surgery , anatomy , pathology , alternative medicine
As the most poorly tolerated and debilitating form of spinal malalignment, sagittal imbalance is becoming an increasingly recognized cause of pain and disability in adults. However, there is evidence showing that sagittal imbalance has a weak or no correlation with health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) outcomes. The objective of this study was to describe the direct factor associated with HRQoL in terms of Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) assessment.