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| | Lumbar herniated disc |
 | | While waiting to see if the disc will heal on its own, several conservative treatment options can help reduce the back pain, leg pain and discomfort caused by the herniated disc. | | | Using microsurgical techniques (a small operation using a microscope) to treat a lumbar herniated disc, a microdiscectomy can usually be done on an outpatient basis or with an overnight stay in the hospital, and most patients can return to work full duty in one to three weeks. | | | If the pain continues after six weeks, it is reasonable to consider microdiscectomy surgery as an option to alleviate the pain from the herniated disc. |
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http://www.spine-health.com/topics/cd/overview/lumbar/young/lum01.html
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| | The Steadman-Hawkins Clinic |
| | Discs are the pads between the vertebrae of the spine. | | | Other conditions that cause back and leg pain can mimic a ruptured lumbar disc. | | | There are twenty-four mobile vertebrae and five that are fused together to form the sacrum. |
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http://www.steadman-hawkins.com/spine_lumbarDisc/overview.asp
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | Disc surgery should not be done with the expectation of improved back pain, though it does often occur. | | | If a large amount of disc is herniated into the spinal canal, it can pinch nerve roots and cause buttock and leg pain. |
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http://www.sonoranspine.com/discHerniation.htm
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | A single disc and its two vertebral bodies does not have much ability to move, however, when put together along the length of the spine, the amount of movement provided is considerable. | | | Other techniques for treatment of disc herniation include percutaneous disc removal (mechanical or laser). | | | Signs and symptoms include urinary problems (either retention or incontinence), loss of leg or foot strength, "saddle" anesthesia (loss of sensation in the area of the body that would be in contact with a saddle), decreased rectal sphincter tone and variable amounts of pain (ranging from minimal to severe). |
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http://www.cinn.org/isc/herniation-lumbar.html
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery: Dr. Jho's Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy |
| | Lumbar disc surgery has evolved from total laminectomy to microdiscectomy technique over a century. | | | Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery: Dr. Jho's Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy | | | The spinal bone includes 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic vertebrae, 5 lumbar vertebrae, the fused sacrum, and the fused coccyx. |
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http://www.drjho.com/id32.htm
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| | CNY Orthopedic Sports Medicine, PC: Injury: Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | Surgery is required to remove the herniated disc material, when symptoms of pain and/or nerve or when non-surgical therapies have failed. | | | The risk of disc herniation increases when the patient lifts heavy objects with poor posture, or participates in an occupation where excess strain and twisting are placed on the spine. | | | The pain associated with a lumbar disc herniation is characterized by a sharp, burning, or stabbing sensation, which radiates down one or both legs. |
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http://www.drcarr.net/index.php?practiceId=10013&lib=Injury&dir=categories&categoryId=198
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| | Spine Care Disc Herniation Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | Although the lumbar vertebrae are the biggest and strongest of the spinal bones, risk of lumbar injury increases with each vertebrae down the spinal column because this part of the back has to support more weight and stress than the upper spinal bones. | | | The lumbar spine consists of the five vertebrae in the lower part of the spine, each separated by a disc, also called a lumbar disc. | | | The spinal cord ends near the top lumbar vertebrae but the lumbar and sacral nerve roots continue through these spinal bones. |
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http://www.ucsfhealth.org/adult/medical_services/spine/disc/conditions/lumbar/signs.html
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| | SpineSource Lumbar Disc Herniation (Herniated Disc) |
| | Next are 5 lumbar (low back) vertebrae, followed by the 5 fused sacral bones (the back of the pelvis) and 4 fused bones of the coccyx (tailbone). | | | Transforamenal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) is a surgical technique that involves removing an intervertebral disc and creating a spinal fusion in the lumbar spine through one incision in the back. | | | Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PLIF) is a surgical technique that involves removing an intervertebral disc and creating a spinal fusion in the lumbar spine through one incision in the back. |
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http://www.spinesource.com/Back-Pain-Disorders/lumbar-disc-herniation.html
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| | Treatment options for lumbar herniated disk, by Spine-Health |
| | For those patients with severe pain that is not responsive to conservative treatment, surgery to decompress the nerve is a reasonable option to treat the lumbar herniated disk. | | | If conservative treatment for the lumbar herniated disk does not provide pain relief after 6 to 12 weeks it is reasonable to consider surgery. | | | In recent years, the morbidity (such as post-operative pain) of surgery for a lumbar herniated disk has decreased and the results have improved, so surgery is generally considered a very reasonable option to get better quicker. |
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http://www.spine-health.com/topics/conserv/lumbar/lumb01.html
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation with Dr. George Frey |
| | Discs, which act as shock absorbers for the spine, are located in between each of the vertebrae in the spine. | | | Minimally invasive techniques often result in quicker patient recovery times compared to traditional techniques, as they reduce trauma to soft tissues and minimize blood-loss during surgery. |
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http://www.coloradospineinstitute.com/conditions/lumbardisc_3.html
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| | Herniated Lumbar Disc |
| | Disc degeneration occurs in probably every human but at varying ages from one individual to the next, sometimes even as early as the teenage years. | | | The advantage of fusion is that, if it solidifies correctly, it will prevent further disc herniation and possibly eliminate pains due to irritable spinal structures at that spinal segment. | | | In the lumbar spine, the lower 2 discs are the most likely to be degenerated and to herniate. |
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http://www.neurospinal.com/to03001.html
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| | eMedicine - Lumbar Disc Disease : Article by Kamran Sahrakar, MD |
| | Unfortunately, a rather large fraction of individuals who have had surgery for lumbar disc disease have recurrent or residual pain, which can be a significant challenge to treat. | | | One of the more difficult concepts for beginning medical students to grasp is the anatomic relationship of the fifth lumbar (L5) nerve root to the L4-5 disc herniation. | | | Predominance of leg pain is the best determinant of good outcome from surgery for lumbar disc herniation. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2902.htm
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| | "Federico II" Univ - Dept of Neurosurgery: Cervical and Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | A detailed anamnesis and a thorough neurologic examination are fundamental for the formulation of the diagnostic suspect of disc herniation and to guide an accurate neuroradiologic diagnostic | | | cervical disc herniation: the decompression of the nerve roots and of the spinal cord is performed by removing the disc and/or the offending osteophytes; the surgical approaches are: anterior discectomy with (Cloward technique) or without fusion and posterior approach (decompressive laminectomy and foraminotomy; hemilaminectomy); | | | It can affect the cervical, dorsal and lumbosacral segment of the rachis; this is the origin of the terms cervicobrachialgia (the pain from the neck spreads to the superior limb), lombalgia (back pain), cruralgia (pain in the anterior face of the thigh) and sciatalgia (the pain spreads to the inferior limb). |
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http://www.neurochirurgia.unina.it/english/ernia.htm
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| | Herniated Lumbar Disc |
| | This can be accomplished in the majority of herniated disc patients with an organized care program that combines a number of treatment methods. | | | The goals of nonsurgical treatment are to reduce the irritation of the nerve and disc and to improve the physical condition of the patient to protect the spine and increase overall function. |
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http://www.spine.org/articles/herniatedlumbardisc.cfm
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation by Globalspine.net |
| | As nerves in lumbar section of the spine are exiting from the spinal cord between the vertebras and then join together again to form the | | | This pain is usually described as a deep and sharp pain, which gets worse as it moves down the affected leg. | | | , which runs down the legs, a herniated lumbar disc will usually cause pain to radiate into the buttocks, and the pain may also travel all the way down the patient’s leg to the foot. |
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http://globalspine.net/lumbar_disc_herniation.html
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| | News - Epidural Steroids May Be Good First Treatment of Large Lumbar Disc Herniation Symptoms |
| | Of these patients, 69 were excluded due to improvement in symptoms with 6 weeks of standard, non-invasive treatments (medication, chiropractic care, rest, and physical therapy). | | | One hundred sixty-nine patients with a herniation encompassing greater than 25% of the cross-sectional area of the spinal canal were recruited for this study. | | | This led Glenn R. Buttermann MD, with the Midwest Spine Institute, Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, to undertake this prospective, non-blinded study comparing discectomy to ESI in relieving the symptoms of lumbar disc herniations in humans. |
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http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256E710024CE47
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| | Chemonucleolysis |
| | When the disk bulges or herniates, it can put pressure on nerves which originate in the spinal column, and go to other parts of the body. | | | "Chemonucleolysis for Lumbar Disc Herniation: How Does it Stack up to Other Minimally Invasive Approaches?" Journal of Musculoskelatal Medicine 1995, 12 (2): 13-24. | | | There are some situations in which chemonucleolysis should not be performed. |
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http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00042280.html
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| | GAIT ABNORMALITIES IN PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION |
| | Clinical signs for herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) may include pain, sensory changes, impaired reflexes, muscle weakness, and reduced walking capacity. | | | Gait analysis can provide quantitative information regarding the dynamic function of specific muscle groups, by analysis of net joint moments, and is sensitive enough to potentially identify subclinical deficits in muscle function in HNP patients (Schipplein et al., 1992). | | | HNP at the L4-5 and L5-S1 lumbar levels are often associated with motor deficits of lower leg muscles. |
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http://asb-biomech.org/onlineabs/abstracts97/115/index.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Lumbar disc disease - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Initial treatment in lumbar disc disease is bedrest (although growing number of studies shows that it makes little difference) and pain relieving medications. | | | Symptoms (pain, loss of muscle strength and loss of touch sensation) may occur, if this herniation causes the compression of the most proximal part of the nerve closely neighbouring the intervertebral disc material. | | | In cases with ongoing pain despite conservative treatments, a surgical operation that will remove the compressing disc material is recommended. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/l/lumbar-disc-disease.html
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| | Robert, M.D., Ph.D. Gunzburg: Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | Other subject areas related to Lumbar Disc Herniation (possibly beyond the scope of this Medical Book List) include: Hernia, Intervertebral disk, Lumbar vertebrae, Medical, Medical / Nursing, Orthopedics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Surgery - General, Wounds and injuries. | | | Topics in our resources on Medical related to Lumbar Disc Herniation include: | | | Other Books related to this Medical Book List can be found under these headings: |
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http://www.argospress.com/Resources/medical/book-0781736005.htm
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | Medical Legal Art creates medical demonstrative evidence (medical illustrations, drawings, pictures, graphics, charts, medical animations, anatomical models, and interactive presentations) for use during legal proceedings, including research, demand letters, client conferences, depositions, arbitrations, mediations, settlement conferences, mock jury trials and for use in the courtroom. | | | Lumbar Vertebra with Spinal Cord, Superior View - AJ00015 | | | L4-5 Disc Herniation with Surgical Discectomy - exh37326 |
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http://hdh.doereport.com/collection.php?CID=108&A=1070
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| | Lumbar disc herniation... |
| | We review the clinical and radiological aspects, treatment alternatives and the literature. | | | Lumbar disc pathology is rare in the pediatric age group. | | | There are no reports of lumbar disc herniation in the preschool age. |
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http://www.imbiomed.com/Neuro/NCv2n2/english/Znc72-12.html
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation - Medical Illustration |
| | Lumbar Disc Herniation with Injury to the Cauda Equina (Spinal Cord) - exh6060b | | | Nucleus Medical Art creates and/or licenses medical products including medical illustrations, medical animations, medical drawings, medical pictures, medical graphics, medical posters, anatomical models, and interactive presentations for use in publishing, pharmaceutical and medical device marketing, patient education, patient informed consent programs, hospital safety awareness, sales training, merchandising, and other uses. | | | C6-7 Disc Herniation with Spinal Cord Compression - exh38028c |
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http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/generateexhibit.php?ID=8256
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| | Re: Re: Lumbar disc herniation/weird symptoms |
| | : The hand symptoms that you describe do not typically occur with lumbar spine | | | However, after the lumbar pain was lessened from the injection, I noticed that my upper back/neck/shoulders hurt. | | | In Reply to: Re: Lumbar disc herniation/weird symptoms posted by CCF Neurosurgery MD/gm on May 11, 1998 at 20:32:17: |
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http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/neuro/archive/5064.html
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| | Occupational lumbar disc herniation among Thai workers claimed for compensation. Women's health issues across the ... |
| | Occupational lumbar disc herniation among Thai workers claimed for compensation. | | | The study was conducted at the Medical Committee Office to the Compensation Fund, from March to August 2000, the documents and medical records of 37 claimants of Thai workers who were diagnosed with occupational lumbar disc herniation were analyzed, 78.4 per cent were male. | | | The most common age was between 26-35 years. |
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http://pentagoninsurance.net/ref-insurance-3/insurance-3-research-abs3.450.html
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| | Lumbar Disc Herniation |
| | Background image of back shows lumbar nerve affected by disc herniation. | | | In addition to medical illustration services, Bodell Communications, Inc. provides a full range of design services, product launch marketing/collateral development, and public relations for health care clients nationwide. | | | Dallas-based medical illustrator Scott Bodell, M.A., has been creating dynamic, award-winning imagery for more than 15 years. |
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http://www.indexedvisuals.com/index/115-028.htm
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| | Energy Center -Inversion Therapy, Sciatica, Inversion Tables |
| | In working with tens of thousands of people since 1980 with back pain, sciatica, pinched nerves, compressed discs, herniated discs, | | | Our company was the first to promote the use of inversion tables nationally and internationally for home use. | | | ruptured discs, scoliosis and many other challenges we have seen the marvelous benefits using an inversion table can bring. |
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http://www.energycenter.com
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