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Evaluation of Patients' Posture and Gait Profile After Lumbar Fusion Surgery by Video Rasterstereography and Treadmill Gait Analysis

This protocol provides guidance on how to perform high resolution video rasterstereography and treadmill gait analysis on patients after lumbar fusion ...

University Hospital Bonn

University Hospital Tuebingen

The rise in the number of patients with lumbar back pain has led to an increase in the number of spinal surgeries. To avoid unfavorable outcomes, high accuracy and reliability of indication for surgery are essential. This requires critical evaluation of postoperative outcomes with its two key dimensions pain and function. While imaging findings give details about the technical dimension of the intervention, they are prone to high inter-/intra-observer variability, with limited relation to functional outcomes. Pain improvement can be directly asked from patients or documented by questionnaires. There is abundant literature on postoperative function based on questionnaires, but quantifiable data such as gait or posture analysis are scarce. Highprecision measurement tools are available and easy to implement in a clinician's work routine.

Using video rasterstereography and treadmill gait analysis as a tool for evaluating postoperative outcome after lumbar spinal fusion.

MINI: Overview of laser-based techniques for the noninvasive cutaneous microcirculatory perfusion assessment, their technological aspects, comparative advantages, current, and future applications in the field of orthopedic and trauma surgery.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 : Microcirculatory integrity and proper function are the cornerstones to tissue nourishment and viability. In the clinical environment extended immobility, injuries, and inflammatory reactions demand local microcirculatory adaption to provide adequate supply. Assessment of endothelial adjustment capability and microcirculatory perfusion status, as direct or surrogate markers of disease, are therefore of uttermost interest to the treating physician. Given the simple, noninvasive, nonradiating nature of laser-based techniques for bedside or intraoperative microcirculatory perfusion assessment, this article's objective is to present a comprehensive overview of available techniques, their technological aspects, and current application. Advantages of individual methods are pointed out and compared with each other. The areas of medical utilization relevant to orthopedics and trauma surgery are exemplified and their available evidence elaborated. A particular focus is put on laser speckle contrast imaging, with its current and future influence on medical practice.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.

Laser-based Techniques for Microcirculatory Assessment in Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery: Past, Present, and Future.

The influence of trauma-related kinematics on the injury pattern of the cervical spine is currently not considered in the available classification systems, only the force vector. Whether the strength of the trauma has an additional influence on the number and complexity of the injuries and whether this can be classified, has not yet been finally investigated.

Sebastian Scheidt

Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

University Hospital Bonn

Evaluation of Patients' Posture and Gait Profile After Lumbar Fusion Surgery by Video Rasterstereography and Treadmill Gait Analysis

Sebastian Scheidt

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University Hospital Bonn

Evaluation of Patients' Posture and Gait Profile After Lumbar Fusion Surgery by Video Rasterstereography and Treadmill Gait Analysis

Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery