This video illustrates a model of the spine that can realistically demonstrate what happens when a injured disc is loaded. I bought this model to my clinic a year ago to help my lower back pain patients understand how the lumbar discs behave when they are compressed. This makes it very easy for them to [...]
I had a patient yesterday undergoing a MRI. It shows a large part of his disc has bulged out and is irritating his nerve. The medical doctor in explained about a new procedure to remove the bulge called plasma nucleoplasty. This is successfully used in cases with lower back pain and sciatica caused by disc [...]
People do MRI scans for all kind of different reasons and lower back pain a common one. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a great way to illustrate anatomical structure in the body. It works very well for the brain, arms, legs and the spine. My interest is of course with the imaging of the spine [...]
I thought I dwell about the human spine for a while as it is the primary focus of my job. Consisting of 24 movable bones the spine is truly an engineering masterpiece. As it connects the skull to the hips it is anatomically divided into 3 regions. In lay man terms we would call them neck, [...]
