Table 3.

Comparison of the average motion of the lumbar spine after our technique or segmental fusion according to Schlenzka et al. [22] to normal values in adults according to White and Panjabi [21]

	Direct repair (°)	Segmental fusion (°) [22]	p-value	Normal (°) [21]
L4–L5	11.8 ± 5.9 (0–21)	15.2 ± 8 (0–30)	>0.05	16 (9–21)
L5–S1	9.9 ± 5.7 (0–21)	0.7 ± 2 (0–11)	<0.0005	17 (10–24)