Abstract
Objectives
To investigate the epidemiology of radiographic degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS) and symptomatic DLS and clarify the impact of radiographic spinopelvic parameters on the presence of symptoms and quality of life (QOL) in DLS subjects.
Methods
We obtained the age, gender, screening for chronic low back pain (CLBP) and lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), QOL assessments and X-rays of the thoracolumbar spine from 254 patients from the general population for this study. The prevalence of DLS and symptomatic DLS were estimated and factors associated with symptoms, and the QOL in the DLS subjects was analysed.
Results
The prevalence of radiographic and symptomatic DLS was 19.2 and 7.8 %, respectively. A female gender (p = 0.018) and decreased sacral slope (p = 0.025) were associated with the presence of CLBP in the DLS subjects. A higher age was also associated with the presence of LSS in these subjects (p = 0.007), whereas the Cobb angle was found to be close the limit for significance (p = 0.063). The sacro-femoral-pubic angle and Cobb angle correlated with the EuroQol-5 dimensions utility score (r = 0.314, p = 0.014) and EuroQol-visual analogue scale score (r = −0.291, p = 0.043), respectively. Lumbar lordosis and body mass index correlated with the lumbar function (r = 0.285, p = 0.047) and visual analogue scale for leg pain (r = 0.328, p = 0.022) on the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Questionnaire, respectively.
Conclusions
The prevalence of radiographic DLS in this study was approximately 20 % and roughly 40 % of the DLS subjects had symptoms. Some spinopelvic parameters may impact the occurrence of symptoms and the QOL in DLS subjects.
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Iizuka, Y., Iizuka, H., Mieda, T. et al. Epidemiology and associated radiographic spinopelvic parameters of symptomatic degenerative lumbar scoliosis: are radiographic spinopelvic parameters associated with the presence of symptoms or decreased quality of life in degenerative lumbar scoliosis?. Eur Spine J 25, 2514–2519 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-015-4256-8
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