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Volume 17(1);  January 2008
Editorial
Animal models for spinal research
Hans-Joachim Wilke
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 1. Published online 2007 November 17. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0549-x.
PMCID: PMC2365518
Review
Are animal models useful for studying human disc disorders/degeneration?
Mauro Alini, Stephen M. Eisenstein, Keita Ito, Christopher Little, A. Annette Kettler, Koichi Masuda, James Melrose, Jim Ralphs, Ian Stokes, and Hans Joachim Wilke
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 2–19. Published online 2007 July 14. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0414-y.
PMCID: PMC2365516
Original Articles
Effects of a cervical disc prosthesis on maintaining sagittal alignment of the functional spinal unit and overall sagittal balance of the cervical spine
Seok Woo Kim, Jae Hyuk Shin, Jose Joefrey Arbatin, Moon Soo Park, Yung Khee Chung, and Paul C. McAfee
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 20–29. Published online 2007 August 25. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0459-y.
PMCID: PMC2365535
Consequences of patient position in the radiographic measurement of artificial disc replacement angles
Victor Kosmopoulos, John McManus, and Constantin Schizas
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 30–35. Published online 2007 September 11. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0486-8.
PMCID: PMC2365534
Complications and reoperations of the SB Charité lumbar disc prosthesis: experience in 75 patients
Ilona M. Punt, Violette M. Visser, Lodewijk W. van Rhijn, Steven M. Kurtz, Jop Antonis, Geert Willem H. Schurink, and André van Ooij
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 36–43. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0506-8.
PMCID: PMC2226059
Analysis of post-operative pain patterns following total lumbar disc replacement: results from fluoroscopically guided spine infiltrations
Christoph J. Siepe, Andreas Korge, Frank Grochulla, Christoph Mehren, and H. Michael Mayer
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 44–56. Published online 2007 October 31. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0519-3.
PMCID: PMC2365532
Prognosis of subacute low back pain patients according to pain response
Ingelise Schmidt, Lotte Rechter, Vivian Kjaer Hansen, Jane Andreasen, and Kim Overvad
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 57–63. Published online 2007 September 5. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0436-5.
PMCID: PMC2365517
Low back pain and its risk indicators: a survey of 7,040 Finnish male conscripts
Ville M. Mattila, Timo Sahi, Vesa Jormanainen, and Harri Pihlajamäki
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 64–69. Published online 2007 September 13. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0493-9.
PMCID: PMC2365533
Predictive validity of initial fear avoidance beliefs in patients with low back pain receiving physical therapy: is the FABQ a useful screening tool for identifying patients at risk for a poor recovery?
Joshua A. Cleland, Julie M. Fritz, and Gerard P. Brennan
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 70–79. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0511-y.
PMCID: PMC2365529
Neck pain and disability due to neck pain: what is the relation?
René Fejer and Jan Hartvigsen
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 80–88. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0521-9.
PMCID: PMC2365525
Pain intensity and severe pain in young immigrant patients with long-standing back pain
Monica Löfvander and Marina Taloyan
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 89–96. Published online 2007 October 20. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0520-x.
PMCID: PMC2365526
The relationship between pain-related fear and lumbar flexion during natural recovery from low back pain
James S. Thomas and Christopher R. France
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 97–103. Published online 2007 October 31. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0532-6.
PMCID: PMC2365523
What comprises a good outcome in spinal surgery? A preliminary survey among spine surgeons of the SSE and European spine patients
M. Haefeli, A. Elfering, M. Aebi, B. J.C. Freeman, P. Fritzell, J. Guimaraes Consciencia, C. Lamartina, M. Mayer, T. Lund, and N. Boos
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 104–116. Published online 2007 November 8. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0541-5.
PMCID: PMC2365536
Higher preoperative Oswestry Disability Index is associated with better surgical outcome in upper lumbar disc herniations
Hooshang Saberi and Arash Vatankhahan Isfahani
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 117–121. Published online 2007 October 31. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0527-3.
PMCID: PMC2365528
Kinematic and temporal interactions of the lumbar spine and hip during trunk extension in healthy male subjects
Stephan Milosavljevic, Poonam Pal, David Bain, and Gillian Johnson
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 122–128. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0487-7.
PMCID: PMC2365519
Surgical results of anterior corpectomy in the aged patients with cervical myelopathy
Jun Lu, Xiaotao Wu, Yonggang Li, and Xiangfei Kong 
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 129–135. Published online 2007 October 31. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0518-4.
PMCID: PMC2365531
Radiographic changes in the lumbar spine in former professional football players: a comparative and matched controlled study
Alpaslan Öztürk, Yüksel Özkan, Recai M. Özdemir, Nazan Yalçın, Semra Akgöz, Vedat Saraç, and Serkan Aykut
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 136–141. Published online 2007 November 1. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0535-3.
PMCID: PMC2365521
Obituary
In Memoria Paul I. J. M. Wuisman
Barend J. van Royen
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 142–143. Published online 2007 October 20. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0522-8.
PMCID: PMC2365520
Abstracts
Abstracts of the 21st National Congress on Spinal Surgery: Meeting of the Spanish Spine Society (Sociedad para el Estudio de las Enfermedades del Raquis – GEER); held in Santander (Spain), 31 May–2 June 2007
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 145–169. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0550-4.
PMCID: PMC2365527
Announcement
The GRAMMER European Spine Journal Award 2008
Hans-Joachim Wilke
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 170. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0575-8.
PMCID: PMC2365522
Erratum
Frameless stereotaxy in a transmandibular, circumglossal, retropharyngeal cervical decompression in a Klippel-Feil patient: technical note
Daniel M. Sciubba, Ira M. Garonzik, Ian Suk, Gary L. Gallia, Anthony Tufaro, Jean Paul Wolinsky, Alex Taghva, and Ziya L. Gokaslan
Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 144. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0523-7.
PMCID: PMC2365524
Corrects:Daniel M. Sciubba, et al. Frameless stereotaxy in a transmandibular, circumglossal, retropharyngeal cervical decompression in a Klippel-Feil patient: technical note. Eur Spine J. 2008 January; 17(1): 144.
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