Pages tagged with "Spinal"

48 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Lumbar degenerative disc diseases might be fought by Vitamin D Receptor activation– many studies
• Spinal fusion and Vitamin D - several studies
• After Spinal Fusion, Vitamin D is better than Bisphosphonate Therapy at 1 year - meta-analysis
• Spinal disc degeneration 1.8X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – mata-analysis
• Spinal fusion surgery greatly improved by Vitamin K2 - RCT
• Spinal disc degeneration reduced by Omega-3 (in rats) – RCT
• Spinal Cord injury outcome was better if got Vitamin D and progesterone within 4 hours – RCT 2016
• Vitamin D2 substantially reduced lumbar degenerative disease
• Less spinal pain if higher Vitamin D - 2026
• Spinal surgery + 3 years: 4X increased risk of adjacent vertabrae problem if <30 ng of Vitamin D
• Nervous System Cancers (brain, spinal cord) fought by Vitamin D
• Pain after spinal cord injury 4.8 X more likely if low Vitamin D
• Spinal cord injury in rats was reduced if vitamin D is given soon after the injury
• Spinal TB surgery now includes Vitamin D as the standard of care (5,000 IU daily)
• Spinal curvature (Idiopathic Scoliosis) associated with low vitamin D
• Spinal fusion improved by vitamin D
• Spinal fusion patients often low on vitamin D
• Spinal non fusion 3.5 X more likely if low vitamin D
• Spinal Fusion complications 2.2 X more likely if low Vitamin D
• Spinal Cord
• Vitamin D before surgery improves outcome (spinal in this case)
• Spinal cord injury - test Vitamin D bi-annually - 2022
• Glioma (brain, spinal cancer) 40 percent less likely if male vitamin D levels were high 15 years earlier
• Give Vitamin D before all spinal surgeries – no testing needed
• Lumbar disc degeneration and low back pain associated with low vitamin D (senior women)
• Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease 3X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
• Degeneration of lumbar disc 2.5 X more likely if poor Vitamin D receptor (not detected by test)
• Lumbar disc degeneration 30 percent more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
• Surgery outcome worse if low vitamin D (lumbar spine surgery this time)
• Spinal Surgery patients – almost all have low vitamin D
• Vitamin D needed after most spinal surgeries (and before as well) – 2013
• Spinal Cord Injured persons were 7.6 X more likely to get pneumonia if low vitamin D
• Spinal Cord Injury treated by Vitamin D progesterone combination, etc. – review of trials
• Spinal muscular atrophy (rare disease) might be helped with vitamin D
• Spinal cord problems more likely if TBI if little Omega-3 in diet
• Spinal Cord Injury wheelchair athletes helped by 12 weeks of Vitamin D
• Vitamin D weekly supplementation (Spinal Cord Injury athletes) increased handgrip strength
• Spinal disc degeneration is associated with vitamin D receptor genes, and others
• Lumbar spinal stenosis pain strongly associated with low vitamin D
• Spinal cord injuries 2.8 X more likely to get worse in 1 year if low vitamin D
• Spinal fracture in lifetime – 4 out of 10 women (vitamin D helps) – 2015 2017
• Both Spinal cord injury and stroke with one side disabled have similar low levels of vitamin D
• Spinal cord injuries may need more vitamin D than others
• Late-stage MS associated with protein in spinal cord which blocks vitamin D
• 93% of Spinal cord injury patients were low on vitamin D
• Spinal Cord Injury patients normalized by 2,000 IU of vitamin D for 3 months
• People with spinal cord injury also very vitamin D deficient – 2010
• Less than 20 ng of vitamin D associated with lumbar spine density in Saudi men