Blu-ray Disc

intervertebral disc and a herniated one. The normal one has the normal components of an intervertebral disc: the annulus fibrosus surrounding the nucleus pulposus and the spinal nerves safely exiting through the neural foramina. In the herniated disc it looks like the annulus fibrosus has been ruptured in its weak spot and the nucleus pulposus has escaped and compressed a spinal nerve. Several types of tissues were involved in this injury. The first one is the tissue that intervertebral discs…

These ones and zeroes were then converted back into sound by a laser which scans the surface of the disc whilst it spins. This was an incredible leap forward for sound on a global scale. Sound was now easily accessible ad more affordable then it had been before. For sound designers, the invention of the rewritable CD was incredibly important. This meant…

With aging, the discs and their protective elasticity degrade. Disc desiccation makes them thinner and weaker and they can no longer perform their full functions. Osteoarthritis develops with accompanying stiffness and pain in the lower back.Degeneration of the discs is normal. It may, however, cause serious disability when the steady progress degenerative disc disorder results in the distortion of disc shape. Deformed discs may impinge upon the spinal cord or its nerve…

This is a 60-year-old male with a 10/01/2015 date of injury. A specific mechanism of injury has not been described. DIAGNOSES: 1. Cervical discogenic pain/bilateral cervical facet pain C2-# and C5-C6/ cervical sprain/strain. 2. Bilateral cervical radicular pain C5-C6 L>R 3. Cervicogenic neck pain with cervicogenic headaches/bilateral occipital neuralgia. 4. Bilateral shoulder sprain/strain. 5. Bilateral wrist sprain/strain/bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. 6. Bilateral hand/ first…

Introduction Everyday nurses talk to their patients about all of the ways they can modify their lives in order to be healthier and stay out of the hospital. However, nurses are not good at taking their own advice. They are some of the unhealthiest people. Throughout school nurses are trained to give the best care possible to all of their patients, even if that meant no lunch that day. There are so many ways that nurses do not take care of their bodies and some of these may be a shock. I will…

Since then several techniques have been described for the surgical treatment of the LDH, such as minimally invasive approaches to access a lumbar disc 12. The aim was to limit the skin incision and decrease muscle damage and epidural scarring. Several lateral percutaneous techniques have been described since. The indications for these percutaneous procedures were mostly limited to contained LDHs…

Reduce Sciatica Pain in Less than 15 Minutes with These Simple Yoga Poses Sciatica is the longest nerve in our body. There are two sciatica nerves. They start at the base of the spine, go downwards through the thigh and calf muscle and end in the foot. Sciatica pain it is not a chronic pain, but many people experience this type of pain at some point in their lives. The symptoms of sciatica pain can also be mild. For instance, you can feel weakness in the knees or tingling in the legs. Signs…

Hi Patry, Thank you for sharing your notion about “recurrent acute episodes of low back pain”. According to Shinichi et al. (2016), ninety percent of adults will have an episode of low back pain (LBP) in their lifetime, moreover about 24-87% will experience the recurrence of the LBP a year following the acute bout. Petersen and Lystad (2016) presented a case report about a 48-year-old male police officer, complaining of acute LBP of two weeks duration. Two months later after the first episode…

This is an 80-year-old female with 01/14/2003 date of injury, who injured her low back and right hip when she fell out of a chair while reaching for a chart DIAGNOSIS: Chronic low back pain with bilateral radiculitis, degenerative disc, status post laminectomy 12/23/15 Progress Report documented that the patient continues to have pain in her lower back and bilateral hip, which radiates down to the foot. There is also radiating pain to the left side of the neck. The lower back and hip pain are…

stenosis is the narrowing or stricture of the spinal canal, with possible subsequent nerve impingement (1). The canal components that contribute to its narrowing include facet joint hypertrophy, ligamentum flavum thickening, bone spurs, and multilevel disc bulge or protrusion (2). Lumbar spinal canal stenosis is one of the most Pain Physician: March/April 2016: 19:139-146 140 www.painphysicianjournal.com sion), and patients with a history of adverse reaction to either local anesthetics,…