Conclusion. These early results indicate that a multimodal treatment program has the potential to be an effective treatment for patients with chronic symptoms after a whiplash injury of the neck—a group of patients who have in the past been considered intractable or, at the very least, puzzling.

Conclusions. Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are currently used to treat osteoporotic VCFs with successful short-term results. Prospective, randomized studies comparing these procedures to one another and comparing their long-term outcomes to conventional medical management are required to define precise roles of these exciting treatments in the spine physician’s armamentarium.

Thirty patients aged 18-40 years old with clinical diagnosis of NSCLBP entered the study. Compared with baseline values, mean value of translation and rotation of the lumbar vertebra reduced significantly in both groups (P< 0.05), except L3 translation in the control group. At the endpoint, mean translation value of L4 (P= 0.04) and L5 (P= 0.001) and rotation of the L5 (P= 0.01) in the treatment group was significantly lower than the control group.

Conclusion:

These findings indicate that in patients presented with NSCLBP due to lumbar segmental instability, core stability exercises plus general exercises are more efficient than general exercises alone in the improvement of excessive lumbar vertebrae translation and rotation.