Early functional training is not superior to routine rehabilitation in improving walking distance and multifidus atrophy after lumbar fusion: a randomized controlled trial with 6-month follow-up - Lu, Hongyuan; Shen, Yanqing; Shao, Quanwei; Huang, Zheng; Cao, Yanjun; Su, Jianqing; Li, Fei; Xiong, Weiyi; Li, Wenyao; Li, Kunpeng; Feng, Wei (European spine journal, 2025)
Keywords: Adult; Aged; Atrophy; Back pain; Back surgery; Clinical trials; Exercise Therapy - methods; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Hospitals; Humans; Intervention; Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Muscle strength; Muscles; Muscular Atrophy - etiology; Muscular Atrophy - rehabilitation; Neurosurgery; Original Article; Paraspinal Muscles - pathology; Patient education; Patients; Quality of life; Rehabilitation; Spinal Fusion - adverse effects; Spinal Fusion - rehabilitation; Spinal stenosis; Surgery; Surgical Orthopedics; Systematic review; Therapy; Treatment Outcome; Walking; Walking - physiology; Walking; Functional training; Multifidus; Randomized controlled trial; Spinal fusion