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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Correlation between multifidus fatty atrophy and lumbar disc degeneration in low back pain.

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2019 Sep 05


BMC Musculoskelet Disord


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31488112?dopt=Abstract


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Correlation between multifidus fatty atrophy and lumbar disc degeneration in low back pain.

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Correlation between multifidus fatty atrophy and lumbar disc degeneration in low back pain.
Faur C, Patrascu JM, Haragus H, Anglitoiu B
BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2019 Sep 05; 20(1):414.
PMID: 31488112.

Abstract

Chronic low back pain (LBP) is common and associated with lumbar disc herniation. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the grade of lumbar disc degeneration correlates with the degree of lumbar multifidus muscle (LMM) fatty atrophy.
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