- 著者
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Ryo Fukata
Takeo Furuya
Yuki Shiko
Yohei Kawasaki
Mayuko Kuwata
Keita Takase
Ryosuke Tadaki
Tomoyo Akasaka
Geundong Kim
Yahiko Takeuchi
Mitsuo Morita
Atsushi Murata
Seiji Ohtori
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research
- 雑誌
- Spine Surgery and Related Research (ISSN:2432261X)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.7, no.5, pp.414-420, 2023-09-27 (Released:2023-09-27)
- 参考文献数
- 31
Introduction: We investigated the effect of preoperative joint position sense in the big toe on the postoperative recovery of gait function after spinal tumor surgery.Methods: Seventy-three patients with spinal tumors who underwent surgery at our hospital between 2014 and 2019 and could be followed for at least 6 months after surgery were included. The patients were divided into the cervical spinal (41 cases) and thoracic spinal (32 cases) groups according to the localization of the tumor. These groups were further classified into an Impaired group (cervical spinal, 34 cases; thoracic spinal, 19 cases) and an Intact group (cervical spinal, 7 cases; thoracic spinal, 13 cases) according to the presence or absence of preoperative joint position sense in the big toe. The amount of change in ambulatory function from the preoperative period to 3 and 6 months postoperatively was compared between the Impaired and Intact groups within each tumor localization category.Results: Impaired preoperative joint position sense in the big toe in patients undergoing thoracic spinal tumor surgery delayed the recovery of gait function in the early postoperative period.Conclusions: In patients with thoracic spinal tumor surgery, the absence of preoperative joint position sense in the big toe delayed the recovery of postoperative gait function.