女子スポーツ選手におけるMRI撮影を使用した腰痛調査

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was performed on 89 female athletes (26 handball players and 63 track and field ones) to investigate the associations between lumbago and the findings detected by MRI. With MRI, a herniated intervertebral disk was diagnosed if there was a projection of intervertebral disk at the level of L1/2 to L5/S1. The results obtained in this study were as follows : 1) 54 subjects (60.7%) had suffered from episodes of lumbago. The prevalence rate of herniated intervertebral disk was 19.1%. 2) There were statistically significant correlations between lumbago and herniated intervertebral disk in L4/5. All subjects with herniated intervertebral disk had some episodes of lumbago. 3) The phenomenon was prominent specifically in L4/5 and L5/S1. Probably, MRI technique offers a safer and more sensitive method to detect early pathological changes associated with lumbago from herniated intervertebral disk than other procedures like x-ray computed tomography.
中京大学の論文
1994-03-18