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Loading the Spine in MRI
Loading the spine and the differences seen in MRI

Contextual Factors | What’s in your clinical context in the management of low back pain?

Words and Diagnostic Labels of LBP Prognosis
Goal of the Study?
The goal of this study is to learn more about a patient's perception and expected outcome when a diagnosis is shared with them regarding their low back pain. In a recent paper published in the European Spine Journal[1.Public…

Cell Clustering in Disc Degeneration – Reparative Potential Within
Goal of the Study?
Learning how back pain develops and potentially advances in degenerative disc disease is critical. Back pain has profound socioeconomic costs worldwide. In this research paper[1.Cell clustering in intervertebral disc degeneration:…

Pain Education Models for Better Patient Education
There you are, as a clinician, with a patient's eyes glaring at you for a reason. WHY do they hurt? It made me uncomfortable in my early years, but later, I learned that sharing your 'probable' diagnosis is essential. As a chiropractor, we are…

Communication Language Important in the Trajectory of LBP Care
Goal of the Study?
What effect will telling a low back pain patient that they have a disc bulge or degeneration have on them? This study was published in the European Journal of Pain [1.Effect of diagnostic labelling on management intentions…

Courtroom Education Pivots on Accurate 3d Modelling
Jury Settles on 8 Million Dollar FedEx Crash
In a recent court case, Dynamic Disc Models played a critical role in educating the court on the mechanism of the motor vehicle accident and educating the doctors (and jurors) about the injured…

Can MRI findings predict lumbar instability?
Goal of the Study?
Vertebral slippage (spondylolisthesis) can occur in the ageing spine. In listhesis, one vertebra is either forward or backwards relative to its adjacent vertebral partner in the vertebral column. In this research study [1.Magnetic…