Title: How Does Gravity Influence the Distribution of Lordosis in Patients With Sagittal Malalignment?
Mitchell S FourmanRenaud LafageFrancis LovecchioBasel Sheikh AlshababSachiin ShahAnanth PunyalaBryan AngJonathan ElyseeLawrence G LenkePhilip J YorkFrank SchwabVirginie LafagePublished in: Global spine journal (2022)
When the effects of gravity are removed, the distal portion of the lumbar spine (i.e., below the apex of lordosis) corrects, suggesting that structural lumbar deformity is primarily proximal.
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