Influence of Preoperative Lumbar Deformity on Improvement in Low Back Pain Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
Patients without severe lumbar deformity but with LBP may benefit from TKA, as their LBP may be secondary to knee OA. In contrast, those with severe lumbar deformity may show limited LBP improvement postoperatively.
Authors
- Fumimasa Maruno
- Tomoyuki Matsumoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-0029)
- Toshihide Maeda
- Ryosuke Kuroda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5097-7264)
- Hiroshi Sasaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7934-9923)
Institutions
- Kobe University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cureus
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.82544
- Primary Topic
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00