Congenital Verteral Synostosis Associated Range of Motion (ROM) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS)

Van Tip Dergisi

Erdal Güngör¹  Zeynep Karakuzu Güngör² 

[1] Batman Training and Research Hospital Department Of Orthopaedic And Traumatology;Batman Training and Research Hospital Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation;

关键词: congenital;    vertebrae;    synostosis;    clinical;   

DOI  :  10.5505/vtd.2021.07992

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

INTRODUCTION: This study was determined the incidence of synostosis of vertebrae at various regions and to compare the increase in synostosis level with increased pain and decreased range of motionMETHODS: Seventy-eight adult vertebral columns were used to establish the incidence of congenital vertebral fusion in different spinal regions.The fusion was completed involving the bodies of the vertebrae without the vertebral arch.RESULTS: The incidence of congenital vertebral fusion was seen at the maximum in the cervical region(61.53%), then in the lumbar (21.79%) and thoracic regions(16.66%) in decreasing order.Visual analog scale scores in the cervical region were seen as 4.9+-1.3, then in the lumbar and thoracic regions as 4.5+-1.3 and 2.3+-1.4, respectively. Congenital vertebral fusion in the cervical, thoracal, and lumbar region, respectively, was most common between C2-C3 and C3-C4,T10-T11 and T11-T12, and the L4-L5 intervertebral bodies. In the cervical region, statistically significant changes were observed between single-level fusion and 2 or more fusions in terms of movement and visual analog scale scores;however, in the thoracic and lumbar regions, no statistically significant difference was observed.There was a statistically significant change in the range of motion in the thoracic and lumbar regions, except in lumbar extension. No patient underwent surgery.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: We found that the frequency of congenital vertebral fusion was most common in the cervical region.We observed that as the number of intervertebral congenital vertebral fusions increased in all cervical,thoracic and lumbar regions, the pain increased and the range of motion decreased.Congenital vertebral fusion causes resistant back pain and decreases the range of motion.

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