Diagnosis parameters used in treatment prediction of the lumbar spine

Abstract

The paper proposes to define three parameters that can be associated with lumbar spine diagnosis. These parameters will further be used in a prediction software that aims to establish a treatment indication in the early stages of the medical exploration. These parameters quantifies very different conditions of the patient: pain - a very subjective parameter; the calories consumed in one day - measurable value; biomechanical parameters like range of motion in lumbar spine and postural angle - measurable parameter. These parameters have to be interconnected and therefore recordings before and after surgery and treatment have to be made. The interconnection of those represents a challenging task that requires a large patient's database from which the statistics can be computed. Another cornerstone in interconnection is the lake of biomechanical statistics on the lumbar spine pathologies.