Author/Editor     Turk, Zmago
Title     Utjecaj veličine intervertebralnoga diska za nastanak lumbalnog sindroma te preventivne mjere za njegovo sprječavanje
Type     monografija
Place     Zagreb
Publisher     Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Medicinski fakultet
Publication year     1998
Volume     str. 139
Language     cro
Abstract     In addition to cancer and AIDS research, low back pain (LBP) constitutes a major epidemiologic and etiologic problem of modern medicine. Asd many as 80% of the entire world population are affected by lumbago at least once in their lifetime. Investigations on the occurrence, the causes and the treatment of lumbar syndrome are going on worldwide, representing an enormous financial burden on society. Lumbar syndrome (LS) accounts for 40% of the entire absenteeism and the costs concerning this disease are increasing greatly. Only during 1994 the USA used up 16 bilion dollars to cover the cost of treatment and research of LS. In 1989 the number of disabled people in Slovenia was as follows: 35.8% I. category, 4.0% II. category and 35.3% III. category of disability, LS being the dominant diagnosis. In the first part of this study, the author analyzes the probable causes of LS occurrence, going in detail into the anatomy of the spine, the intervertebral disks and the innervation of this segment. The intervertebral disk (IVD) is part of the dynamic segment in the spine, constituting the nucleus of lumbar mobility and it can therefore only be analyzed within the context of the entire segment. As IVD size plays a significant part the author tested four different methods of assessing it: measuring of the IVD on survey X-rays and CT by means of the formula for the area of an ellipse, CT with integrated real of interest (ROI) program for assessing the real IVD size, and the anthropometric method acc. to Colombini in which IVD size is calculated indirectly by using the anthropometric measurements of andividual parts of the organism. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters.)
Descriptors     LOW BACK PAIN
INTERVERTEBRAL DISK
INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
AUTOMOBILE DRIVING
QUESTIONNAIRES
ANTHROPOMETRY
TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED
WORKPLACE
SMOKING
PHYSICAL FITNESS