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mportant to find out the deterioration of motor function.Level of Evidence 4. The patients with baseline MW had inferior HRQoL for up to 3 years compared to that of those without MW; however, the amount of improvement in HRQoL was comparable. Timely follow-up is important to find out the deterioration of motor function.Level of Evidence 4. A retrospective multi-center study. To determine the surgical site infection (SSI) rate, associated risk factors, and causative pathogens in pediatric patients with spinal deformity. There have been no extensive investigations of the risk factors for SSI in Japan. Demographic data, radiographic findings, and the incidence of SSI were retrospectively analyzed in 1449 pediatric patients who underwent primary definitive fusion surgery for spinal deformity at any of 15 institutions from 2015 to 2017. SSI was defined according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline. The incidence of all SSIs was 1.4% and that of deep SSIs was 0.76%. The most common pathogenic microbes were methicillin-resistant staphylococci (n=5) followed by gram-negative rods (n = 4), methicillin-sensitive staphylococci (n = 1), and others (n = 10). In univariate analysis, younger age, male sex, a diagnosis of kyphosis, type of scoliosis, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class ≥3, mental retardation u and administration of antibiotic therapy twice daily.Level of Evidence 3. The overall infection rate was low. The most common causative bacteria were methicillin-resistant followed by gram-negative rods. Independent risk factors for SSI in pediatric patients undergoing spinal deformity surgery were scoliosis etiology, ASA class 3, and administration of antibiotic therapy twice daily.Level of Evidence 3. Prospective randomized comparative (controlled) study. Management of the severe postoperative back pain followed the major spinal surgeries remains a challenge. The search is going on to find simple, efficient, and reliable perioperative analgesia with low side effects. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of intraoperative freehand erector spinae plane block (ESBP) after spinal surgeries. A few case reports and randomized controlled studies demonstrated the analgesic efficacy of ESPB in spinal surgeries. Up-to-date, no randomized controlled studies investigated the effectiveness of ESPB on spinal instrumentation surgeries. We randomly divided fifty-six consecutive adult patients who underwent posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion for spondylolisthesis into two groups. The study (ESPB) group (n = 28) received intraoperative freehand bilateral ESPB with a 20 ml mixture solution of 0.25% bupivacaine and 1.0% lidocaine equally divided into all operating levels. In the control group (n = 28), 20 ml ents with spondylolisthesis, it can relieve postoperative backache and reduce opioid consumption.Level of Evidence 1. Intraoperative ESPB as a part of multimodal analgesia was effective. For posterior instrumented patients with spondylolisthesis, it can relieve postoperative backache and reduce opioid consumption.Level of Evidence 1. Three-arm, parallel, randomized, placebo-controlled, assessor-blinded trial. To compare the immediate effect of manual therapy at the upper thoracic spine on the cardiovascular autonomic control of patients with musculoskeletal pain. Musculoskeletal pain increases the risk of cardiovascular events. Thus, manual therapy applied to the upper thoracic region is likely efficient to improve the cardiac autonomic control. The study included 59 patients with musculoskeletal pain enrolled at an outpatient clinic. Participants were randomly assigned to spinal manipulation (n = 19), myofascial manipulation (n = 20), or placebo (n = 20) administered to the upper thoracic region. Resting heart rate variability provided indexes of t