Association between MRI findings and inflammatory symptoms in non-specific chronic low back pain

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
³ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
⁵ School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States.
⁸ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States. conor.oneill@ucsf.edu.

Katharina Ziegeler et al. Eur Spine J. 2025.

. 2025 Oct 22.

doi: 10.1007/s00586-025-09492-7. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
³ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
⁵ School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States.
⁸ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States. conor.oneill@ucsf.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Inflammatory back pain; Low back pain; Lumbar spine; MR imaging.

Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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