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Bright Facet Sign And Its Association With Demographic And Clinical Variables, Gary Andrew Longmuir
Bright Facet Sign And Its Association With Demographic And Clinical Variables, Gary Andrew Longmuir
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Low back pain has a significant impact on global public health and economics. The bright facet sign (BFS), a common finding on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine, is associated with low back pain. While degenerative joint disease (DJD) affects low back pain, its presence appears independent of the BFS at the disc and facet joints at the same spinal level. Increased BMI, considered a risk factor for DJD, has an inverse association with the BFS. The independent relationship of DJD and the BFS is poorly understood and may represent a previously unreported pain pathway. In this nested …