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    Popliteal Blocks

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    the knee and is mainly indicated in surgery of the foot and the ankle. However it can be combined to other blocks in order to realise other surgical procedures such as the total knee replacement. The popliteal block consists in a block of the sciatic nerve at the levl of the knee. Like other regional anesthesia, it has various advantages which are the rapid fnctional recuperation and reduction of the hospital stay, what is lookef for with the popularity of outpatient surgery. Moreover, PB not…

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    INTRODUCTION Our nerve cells are highly involved in the environmental and internal complex processes of our body. In order for the input and output mechanisms to go smoothly, these highly specialized cells, called neurons, must communicate not only with one another, but also with other muscles, and organs in an effective way throughout the body using electrical synapses. While neurons are made up off a cell body referred to as the soma, dendrites, and axon. Nerves consist of axons and sometimes…

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    Sciatica Research Paper

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    about because of bothering of the sciatic nerve. The agony of sciatica is normally felt from the low back (lumbar range) to behind the thigh and can transmit down beneath the knee. The sciatic nerve is the biggest nerve in the body and starts from nerve roots in the lumbar spinal line in the low back and stretches out through the butt cheek territory to send nerve endings down the lower appendage. The torment of sciatica is once in a while alluded to as sciatic nerve torment. While sciatica is…

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    Sciatica is a medical condition that causes sciatic nerve pain along the nerves in the lower back, lower legs and bottom. It is one of the longest nerves in the body, so it stretches from the back to each leg. Normally, this nerve is responsible for the sensations felt through the feet, thighs and legs. Unfortunately, this medical condition is fairly common, so many people in Jacksonville, Florida are likely to experience at some point. It is difficult to get a diagnosis because this…

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    Material and Methods: ASA I-II, 90 patients scheduled for arthroscopic meniscectomy were randomized into three groups. Spinal anaesthesia was performed with 7.5 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine (group S, n=30). Combined sciatic-femoral nerve block(25 ml for femoral nerve block and 15 ml for sciatic nerve block with bupivacaine or levobupivacaine) was performed with bupivacaine (group FS-B, n=30) or levobupivacaine (group FS-L, n=30). Heart rate, blood pressure and peripheral oxygen saturation was…

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    and Sciatic Nerve Block in Arthroscopic ACL Reconstruction Surgery Ashraf E Alzeftawy (MD) and Ahmad A El-Daba (MD) Assistant professor of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine,Tanta University. Abstract PURPOSE: The aim of this prospective randomised study was to compare the effect of cold bupivacaine 0.5% and magnesium added to normal tempretutre bupivacaine 0.5% during sonar guided combined femoral- sciatic…

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    Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT), according to Muscle Health, is a specialized from a deep tissue massage in which pressure and friction are used to release areas of strain in the muscle, in other words, it’s known as a Trigger point. To go further, NMT was originally founded by Dr. Stanley Lief, in the year of 1930 in England. Dr. Lief first lived here in the United States and trained as a chiropractor and a naturopathic physician. NMT was based on the combination with American chiropractic and…

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    One of them was to understand how nerve stimulation endues muscular contraction and to explore this idea we stimulated the sciatic nerve of the subject and we were able to analyze how changes in stimulus intensity and stimulus frequency affected twitch tension of the gastrocnemius muscle. Another goal, was to observe the changes in contraction…

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    likely suffering from a posterior hip dislocation. A hip dislocation can damage the bones, ligaments, muscles, vessels, and nerves of the region. The hip joint is a ball and socket joint composed of the head of the femur bone and the acetabulum of the pelvic bone. A band of fibrocartilage deepens the acetabulum. A fibrous joint capsule surrounds the coxofemoral joint.…

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    claimant presented with a mid/low back pain radiating to his feet and toes with numbness. She had nerve block injection in the sciatic nerve, bilaterally. On a follow-up visit with Dr. Johnson dated 07/26/2017, it was noted that the claimant had been having anxiety issues with her thyroid effect on her hair. She stated that it feels like her hair was growing. The claimant had bilateral sciatic nerve block injection on 07/31/2017, 08/07/2017, and 08/14/2017. A peer review by Germaine Rowe,…

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