Browsing by Author "Vatan S."

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    Low back pain and posture
    (1999) Tüzün Ç.; Yorulmaz I.; Cindaş A.; Vatan S.
    This study was designed to analyse postural aberrations of the back and lower back region in patients with acute and chronic low back pain and to investigate the accordance of clinical and radiological assessments. Fifty patients with acute and 50 with chronic low back pain and 50 controls were studied and a detailed spinal physical examination was performed. In addition, the angles of thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis and sacral inclination were assessed radiologically. Differences among the three groups, correlations of radiological parameters with each other and with clinical parameters such as age, gender and body mass index, and the accordance of clinical and radiological postural assessments were investigated. It was concluded that there were no statistically significant differences among the groups for angles of thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis and sacral inclination; however, we found significant correlations among all radiological parameters, especially between lumbar lordosis and sacral inclination. Both lumbar lordosis and sacral inclination were increased with body mass index, and lumbar lordosis and thoracic kyphosis were increased with age. Clinical assessments of thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis were not in accordance with radiological assessments.
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    Low back pain and scoliosis; [Bel aǧrisi ve skolyoz]
    (2000) Yorulmaz I.; Cindaş A.; Vatan S.; Tüzün Ç.
    In this study we aimed to investigate the factors that could be effective in the evolution of scoliosis in adults and the relation of scoliosis and low back pain by comparing the presence of scoliosis in healthy volunteers. 209 patients with low back pain were scheduled together with 50 volunteers. All of them underwent clinical evaluation and then A-P and lateral dorsal and lumbosacral vertebrae radiograms were obtained. The status of sacroiliac joints were also observed in the radiographs. No significant difference was detected concerning the presence of scoliosis, the degree of scoliotic curves, localizations and directions between patients with low back pain and controls. Significant increase in the radiolucency of vertebrae was detected in the scoliotic group; apart from this no relation was found regarding osteoporosis and degenerative disease of the spine between patients with and without scoliosis. Degenerative stigmata in sacroiliac joints were present more often in patients with scoliosis. As a result although no direct relation could be found between low back pain and adult dorsolumbar scoliosis, the fact that detecting radiolucency of vertebrae significantly higher in scoliotics could put osteoporosis as a factor responsible in the older age groups. The degeneration of sacroiliac joints and its relation to scoliosis apparently need further investigations.