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| | Intervertebral disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This is called a slipped disc, and the nuclear pulposus may press against nerve roots, causing radicular pain. | | | All along the spine, near the posterior side of each disc, the major spinal nerves extend out to different organs, tissues, extremities etc. It is very common in such injuries for the herniated disc to press against these nerves (pinched nerve) causing radiating pain, numbness, tingling, diminished strength and/or range of motion. | | | The same is possible in the arms, hands, feet shoulders, neck and face. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervertebral_disc
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| | Thoracolumbar Intervertebral Disc Disease |
| | The thoracolumbar spine (back) is the location of a disc rupture in about 80% and the cervical spine (or neck) in about 20% of the patients seen. | | | Disc degeneration occurs in almost any breed, but small breed dogs are overrepresented with the condition (Dachshunds, Beagles, Basset Hounds, Pekingese, Cocker Spaniels, Poodles, etc.). | | | This is the reason why disc disease in humans usually leads "only" to a "pinched nerve." In small breed dogs however, a disc rupture will, with very few exceptions, always lead to compression of the spinal cord. |
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| | Canine Intervertebral Disk Disease |
| | However, due to the subjective nature of the interpretation of the presence or absence of deep pain perception, it is probably wise to extend the "window" of time in which aggressive medical and surgical therapy is attempted to 48 hours. | | | Intervertebral disk disease is a major neurologic problem affecting both canines and humans. | | | A third source of pain from intervertebral disk disease arises when nerve roots are entrapped by herniated disk material. |
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http://www.dachshund-dca.org/diskbook.html
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| | Arthritis Research & Therapy Full text Degeneration of the intervertebral disc |
| | Disc degeneration-related pain is also treated surgically either by discectomy or by immobilization of the affected vertebrae, but surgery is offered only to one in every 2000 back pain episodes in the UK; the incidence of surgical treatment is five times higher in the USA [93]. | | | It is believed that such an injury initiates a pathway that leads to disc degeneration and finally to clinical symptoms and back pain [83]. | | | It alters disc height and the mechanics of the rest of the spinal column, possibly adversely affecting the behaviour of other spinal structures such as muscles and ligaments. |
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http://arthritis-research.com/content/5/3/120
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| | Intervertebral Disc Replacement |
| | Intervertebral disc replacement is a surgical technique for the treatment of low back pain related to degenerative disc disease. | | | Approaches to restoration of the function of a degenerated or dysfunctional disc include techniques of biological reconstruction and techniques of artificial disc replacement. | | | The Spinal Disorders Division at UC San Francisco is currently investigating intervertebral disc regeneration using techniques of cellular and molecular biology, and investigating intervertebral disc arthroplasty (artificial joint creation) at a clinical trial center. |
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http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article1682.html
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| | What's Hot- Degenerative Disc Disease |
| | Still the mainstay of surgical treatment for the painful degenerative disc is that of spinal fusion surgery, which may be done from the anterior approach, posterior approach or both, with and without hardware placement. | | | Discs can degenerate in the Cervical, Thoracic or Lumbar spine. | | | If it is a part of the clinical picture an IDET (Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy) approach can be taken. |
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http://www.bayareapainmedical.com/wdgndisc.html
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| | EURODISC - Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Interplay of Age, Environmental and Genetic Factors |
| | Disc function is dependent on a balance between matrix synthesis and matrix breakdown. | | | Because of the complex nature of disc degeneration-related disorders, a multidisciplinary approach is necessary to identify what causes the intiation and progression of degenerative changes in the intervertebral disc. | | | This, in turn, causes further disc degeneration which alters the spinal mechanics and leads to painful and disabling conditions. |
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http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/EURODISC
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| | Care of Disc Herniation |
| | The chiropractic management of a patient with a large herniation of the L5-S1 intervertebral disc is described. | | | Flexion/distraction manipulation is a treatment that should be investigated as a part of the algorithm for presurgical therapies of lumbar intervertebral disc injuries. | | | The surgical option for treating intervertebral disc herniations might be reduced with propagation of flexion/distraction manipulation. |
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| | ACCG:Neurology:Disc Disease |
| | Disc disease does occur in large breed dogs but here the age incidence is similar to that found in most people i.e. | | | This is because herniated discs in humans occur mainly in the low lumbar area, which is occupied by nerve roots and not by spinal cord. | | | In dogs and cats, most disc herniations compress the spinal cord and so cause varying degrees of weakness in the rear limbs rather than the pain that occurs most commonly with nerve root compression in humans. |
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| | Intervertebral Disc |
| | The incidence of a second intervertebral disc extrusion that would also require surgery for resolution of the problem is less than 1% in the cervical area and less than 3% in the thoracolumbar area. | | | It is often the result of a massive disc extrusion accompanied by hemorrhage in the spinal canal and/or within the spinal cord. | | | Because of these facts, early recognition of a disc problem is extremely important, and early intervention often means the difference between a very good prognosis and paralysis for life. |
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| | Intervertebral Disc Disease - Thoracolumbar Area - PetPlace.com |
| | Thoracolumbar (T-L) disc disease is a condition that occurs when pressure is placed on the spinal cord by disc material that herniates beneath or adjacent to the cord. | | | Radiographs of the spine may be helpful to localize the affected disc space, but definitive diagnosis of spinal cord compression is usually obtained by injecting a dye into the spinal canal, a procedure called a myelogram. | | | Then a “window” is made in the spinal bone to relieve the pressure on the spinal cord and to allow access to the disc material so that it can be removed. |
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| | Intervertebral Disc Disease |
| | Before surgery can be done, radiographs (x-rays) and a myelogram (a special x-ray in which dye is injected around the spinal cord) must be performed to identify the area of the spinal cord that is involved. | | | These dogs require surgery to remove a section of bone over the spinal cord (hemilaminectomy), and to remove the herniated disc material in order to relieve the pressure on the cord. | | | Your dog has had a decompressive hemilaminectomy (the removal of bone over the area of spinal cord compression). |
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http://www.vet.purdue.edu/cpr/IVDD.html
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| | Topics of Interest > Intervertebral Disc Disease |
| | Surgery is the treatment of choice in dogs whose ruptured disc causes paralysis. | | | The goals of surgery are to decompress the spinal cord (relieve the pressure off of the spinal cord) and, if possible, to remove the ruptured disc material from the spinal canal. | | | This is very delicate surgery since the work involves the tissues immediately surrounding the spinal cord, but, if done early, it usually carries a good prognosis. |
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http://www.southpaws.com/topics/IVD.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - slipped disc (Pathology) - Encyclopedia |
| | Material from the disc may press on spinal nerves and cause numbness or tingling, weakness, or paralysis in the area of the body enervated by those nerves. | | | If natural healing fails to occur surgery may be required to remove the disc, and the affected vertebrae fused to keep them from rubbing together. | | | Treatment consists of bed rest, usually with a hard board placed beneath the mattress, local application of heat, and the administration of muscle relaxants to relieve spasms. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/S/slippedd.html
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| | Disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In biology, an intervertebral disc is a cartilaginous joint between vertebrae in the spine of vertebrate animals. | | | The DiSC assessment is a psychological assessment used to determine individual's personality types and is often used in performance management and employement selection. | | | The divergence in spelling is due in part to the way in which the words originated. |
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| | Home-Intervertebral Disc Disease |
| | Before a disc ruptures, it degenerates from a soft, rubber consistency to a stiff material that can then escape from between the vertebrae and end up next to the spinal cord. | | | However, since more than 95% of degenerated discs will heal without surgery, the chance of a dog requiring surgery a second time is less than 5%. | | | Pressure on the spinal cord and/or the nerves that leave the spinal cord over the discs results in back pain and/or loss of nerve information transmission. |
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http://www.petalia.com.au/templates/storytemplate_process.cfm?specie=Dogs&story_no=1855
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| | Intervertebral disc disease |
| | One method for surgically relieving the pressure on the spinal cord is fenestration, in which the protruding disc material is removed from the intervertebral space by means of a needle or a scraper. | | | Various sensory and motor "circuits" are contained in specific parts of the spinal cord and the type of paralysis, plus the presence or absence of pain, are clues from which the extent of damage to the cord can be deduced. | | | The location of the protruding disc, and the extent of the resulting spinal cord injury determine what signs the dog will show. |
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| | Intervertebral disc disease |
| | When the surgeon has this information, less manipulation and trauma to the spinal cord may result during the surgery. | | | The spinal cord is located in the spinal canal. | | | The spine is made up of many bones called vertebrae. |
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| | Lumbago, Intervertebral disc disease, Frozen shoulder, Headache, Chronic pain, Dysautonomia, Pain clinic |
| | Lumbago, Intervertebral disc disease, Frozen shoulder, Headache, Chronic pain, Dysautonomia, Pain clinic |
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| | Clinical Aspects of Surgical Treatment of Thoracolumbar Disc Disease in Dogs |
| | The clinical records of 300 dogs with thoracolumbar disc disease treated by decompressive surgery at the Clinic of Surgery and Orthopedics at University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno during a four year period (April 1994 through March 1998) were reviewed. | | | All dogs were treated by hemilaminectomy without prophylactic fenestration of other disc spaces. | | | Clinical Aspects of Surgical Treatment of Thoracolumbar Disc Disease in Dogs. |
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| | IVDD |
| | The intervertebral discs form an elastic cushion between the vertebrae, which allows movement, minimizes trauma and shock and helps connect the spinal column. | | | Treatment with corticosteroids to alleviate spinal cord pain can be dangerous because dogs that are pain-free tend to become more active (instead of rest) with the consequence that additional intervertebral disc can herniate and irreversibly compress the already damaged spinal cord. | | | Surgical therapy is used if the dog is not improving or getting worse with cage rest and if signs of incoordination are present. |
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| | Artificial Intervertebral Disc |
| | There is no evidence that disc replacement reliably, reproducibly, and over longer periods of time fulfills the three primary objectives of clinical efficacy, continued motion, and few adjacent segment degenerative problems. | | | When conservative treatment of degenerative disc disease fails, a common surgical approach is spinal fusion; over 200,000 spinal fusions are performed each year. | | | However, the outcomes of spinal fusion have been controversial over the years, in part due to the difficulty in determining whether a patient’s back pain is related to degenerative disc disease and in part due to the success of the procedure itself. |
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| | TORTICOLLIS CAUSED BY INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CALCIFICATION |
| | The child's pain was refractory to morphine treatment and he was transferred to A.I. for the management of his intractable pain. | | | Asymptomatic lesions have been detected in the thoracic spine on routine chest radiographs. | | | Over the ensuing 24 hrs the child demonstrated marked improvement of his symptoms and was switched to motrin. |
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| | CERVICAL_SPONDYLOSIS |
| | Spondylosis generally mean changes in the vertebral joint characterized by increasing degeneration of the intervertebral disc with subsequent changes in the bones and soft tissues. | | | Apart from clearly delineating the soft tissue and disc compression it may show signal intensity changes in the cord itself and helps to assess the degree of cord damage. | | | A left sided approach avoids injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve injury. |
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| | Lumbar disc disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Initial treatment in lumbar disc disease is bedrest (although growing number of studies shows that it makes little difference) and pain relieving medications. | | | The disc compresses, pinching nerves and placing stress upon the spine. | | | Lumbar disc disease causes about one-third of all back pain. |
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| | Herniated Intervertebral Disc by Globalspine.net |
| | Disc herniation occurs in the lumbar spine 15 times more often than in the cervical portion of the spine. | | | This material may bulge or push out through a tear in the disc wall, causing pain when it touches a nerve. | | | Only 1 to 2% of the intervertebral disc herniations occur in the thoracic (upper-to-mid-back) spine region. |
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| | Herniated Discs |
| | Surgical indications should be strictly defined as failure to relieve radicular pain or radiculopathy despite appropriate conservative treatment for at least 6 weeks, and imaging study showing herniated disc that correlates clinically. | | | This is because the lumbar spine carries most of the body's weight. | | | Among conservative treatments mentioned, pain relief with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) and a gradual exercise program rather than bedrest is important for maximal recovery. |
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| | Dawn M. Elliott, Ph.D., Understanding Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Mechanical Function Using a Transgenic Mouse ... |
| | Because the disc is a mechanical system, it is important to understand the relationships between microstructure, composition, and mechanical behavior. | | | Completion of this study will reveal fundamental structure-function relationships in the intervertebral disc by addressing specific hypotheses. | | | These results may be applied in studies of disc degeneration using the mouse, such as in an altered loading model, for future development of treatment modalities to prevent and reverse human disc degeneration. |
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| | Intervertebral Disc Pathology: Its Relevance in Forensic Medicine |
| | In that paper, I discussed our current model of disc pain from a physiological point of view, but did not comment on the incidence or prevalence of disc disease in the population and, in particular, the asymptomatic population. | | | Thus, the meaning of HNP and other lesions in the cervical spine are not comparable to those found in the lumbar spine, and extrapolation between these anatomically and biomechanically distinct regions is not permissible. | | | Intervertebral discs as a source of pain: is our current model valid? |
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| | CONTACT FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTERVERTEBRAL DISC |
| | An anterior surgical approach to the spine was simulated by removal of the anterior and anterolateral portion of the annulus and the entire anterior longitudinal ligament. | | | A similar finiding was made during the in-vitro study when bilateral facetectomy caused hypermobility of the affected level in extension and axial rotation. | | | This may have induced a pre-strain in the posterior ligaments, which resist flexion. |
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| | Collagen Contents in Lumbar intervertebral Disc protrusions and free fragments |
| | The aim of this study is to determine the role of collagen content in development of intervertebral disc disease. | | | Total collagen content was determined using hydroxy-proline analysis. | | | However, changes in the amount of disc and ligament collagen did not demonstrate a correlation between age and collagen amount of disc materials (p > 0.05). |
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| | Lumbar herniated disc animation |
| | A herniated disc in the lower back can cause lower back pain and/or leg pain (sciatica) by putting pressure on the nerve root. | | | The information in Spine-health.com is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help or advice but is to be used only as an aid in understanding back pain and neck pain. | | | This animation allows you to see what a typical lumbar herniated disc looks like. |
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| | Statements of Principles — Intervertebral disc prolapse — diagnostic protocol |
| | "intervertebral disc prolapse" means protrusion, herniation or rupture of an intervertebral disc of the cervical, thoracic or lumbar spine, causing local pain and stiffness, and may include: | | | Intervertebral disc (IVD) prolapse refers to an initially acute event, in which there is sudden onset of symptoms at a particular level in the spine. | | | Generally one or other diagnosis will apply, but in certain circumstances both diagnoses may apply to the same area of the spine. |
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| | Tissue engineering for intervertebral disc repair. |
| | The use of the substrate-cell hybrid construct provides a new approach for treatment of degenerative disc disease. | | | Herein, we describe a novel approach to the treatment of disc disease using tissue-engineering principles. | | | Degenerative disc disease, an irreversible process, is the leading cause of back pain. |
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| | Your Own Health Education - INTERVERTEBRAL DISC |
| | If the disc rupture is large enough, weakness may develop in the muscles of the leg and foot. | | | Medication and, occasionally, injection of cortisone into the lower back may be necessary to relieve pain. | | | Most discs will resolve in time without any specific treatment. |
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| | 722 Intervertebral disc disorders |
| | Description: Displacement of a disc in the upper or lower back which may put pressure on the adjacent spinal nerve causing pain and sometimes sensory loss. | | | Other Links: Click below for detailed information on this condition: | | | Initial conservative medical treatment, regular work if cause of disability: 84 days |
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| | Intervertebral disc prosthesis (US6395034) |
| | Prosthetic nucleus replacement for surgical reconstruction of intervertebral discs and treatment method | | | Anterior spinal implant system for vertebral body prosthesis | | | An intervertebral disc is replaced with a construct including an expandable stent having convex heads and a hardenable material, such as a resin, which is injected into the intervertebral space around the stent and allowed to harden in situ. |
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| | A Conformal Intervertebral Disc Prosthesis -- from Mathematica Information Center |
| | Within a considerable part of this group (about 20 percent) some kind of arthrosis arises, which may lead to chronic pain. | | | Although the cause of lower back pain remains unclear in many cases, it is generally accepted that degeneration of the intervertebral discs plays an important role in the causes of these complaints. | | | In order to cancel the pain due to these complaints, there are three common solutions: restriction, arthrodesis (fixation), and replacement of the particular joint. |
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| | Prosthetic intervertebral disc replacement |
| | Single discs can be replaced, or alternatively, several levels can be replaced during the same surgery. | | | The standard intervention for patients with these indications would be discectomy and spinal fusion. | | | Want to read our guidance on an illness or condition? |
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| | Intervertebral disc nucleus prosthesis (US6402784) |
| | Percutaneous prosthetic spinal disc nucleus and method of manufacture | | | Prosthetic spinal disc nucleus having selectively coupled bodies | | | Hydrophilic or hydrogel carrier systems such as coatings, body implants and other articles |
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| | Welcome to Articular Engineering |
| | Articular Engineering, LLC seeks to advance the development of treatment modalities for articular cartilage and intervertebral disc disorders through tissue engineering. | | | Available for immediate purchase, tissue engineered cartilage for drug discovery. |
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| | Welcome To ABLEdogs Home Page! |
| | It was started specifically for Dachshund people who have or are experiencing intervertebral disc disease or other paralysis in their dogs. | | | In the time since its "whelping" our list has grown and now provides support for anyone who loves and is loved by an animal with "special needs" of any kind. |
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| | GlobalSpine - Anatomy - Intervertebral Disc |
| | It cannot replace the relationship with health-care professional and you should always talk to your health-care professional for diagnosis and treatment. | | | The intervertebral disc is water based fluid structure that is between vertebras. | | | A disc is composed of 2 parts: a central nucleus (pulposus) surrounded within an annulus (fibrosus). |
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| | MRI classification of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc. |
| | A consecutive series of 28 patients with lumbar herniated intervertebral disc (HIVD) who exhibited positive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings was analyzed and compared with operative findings to define the type of disc herniation. | | | This prospective study showed that the overall accuracy of MRI in predicting the types of HIVD was 80.6%. | | | Sequestered disc could be more accurately diagnosed with Gadolinium-DTPA enhancement, which showed anterior rim enhancement of the sequestered portion on T1-weighted axial image. |
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