Cross Leg Pain and Trunk List
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Spine
- Vol. 14 (6) , 602-603
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007632-198906000-00010
Abstract
The prognostic significance of gravity-induced trunk list and cross leg pain was investigated in 113 patients who had root tension signs from a lumbar disc lesion. Cross leg pain, (a positive contralateral straight leg raising sign) and list was associated with poor prognosis for conservative management. There was a high incidence of disc sequestration and extrusion in the operated patients with cross leg pain. It was concluded that cross leg pain is probably a contraindication to chymopapain injections, and the surgeon should be aware of the possibility of a migrated disc fragment during operation on patients with cross leg pain.Keywords
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