RESEARCH PEARL - Knee Pain and Disc Height

09/03/2019

Knee pain and back pain? A new research study connects the disc height with pain issues:

  • T12/L1 with buttock pain and prior vertebral fractures
  • L1/L2, L2/L3, L3/L4 with knee pain, particularly L2/L3.
Do you find that patients with knee pain find relief when you treat their spines? Everything is connected!
 
Read more: Uehara K, Akai M, Doi T, Oka H, Iwaya T. Relationship between X-ray findings of lumbar spondylosis and knee pain. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2019;20(1):379. Published 2019 Aug 17. doi:10.1186/s12891-019-2755-1 


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