SGBP Final 4

RANJAN VENKATESAN MD, FRCOG, MBA SAY GOODBYE TO BACK PAIN ...

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PREFACE Back pain is one of the most common disorders affecting half the population of the world at any point in time. It is amo ...

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Contents PREFACE PROLOGUE Some Facts and Figures Spine – Structure and Function The muscles of the spine Mechanical causes of b ...

The problem with back pain is that it comes back again and again with increasing severity. PROLOGUE HI! Welcome to one of the co ...

The very fact that you are reading this book is proof enough that you are not satisfied with the truckloads of information on ba ...

Up to 80% of all adults have at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetime. Some Facts and Figures Every year, nearly ...

If you pick ten adults at random and do an MRI scan on them, three out of the ten would have some abnormal finding in the spine ...

Treatments Since there is, very rarely, a definitive diagnosis for anyone complaining of severe low back pain, a plethora of the ...

The spine consists of a series of bone blocks placed one above the other and curved in four places since I started practicing al ...

The spinal column (or vertebral column) is made up of 33 individual bones Spine – Structure and Function My friend announced one ...

The vertebral column Vertebral groups The vertebrae are stacked on top of each other. They are grouped into five regions:  7 ve ...

Shape of the Spinal Column When looking at the spinal column from behind, it should be perfectly straight. When looking at the s ...

The spine thus has four natural curves. Two are lordotic – bending backwards – and two are kyphotic – bending forwards. The cerv ...

A typical vertebra Lamina – a thin semi-circle like arch of bone between the transverse and spinous processes Spinal canal – th ...

Facet joint (side view) Try to feel your spine with your fingers. You will feel knobbly bits all the way down your back. These a ...

vertebrae are attached to muscles by tendons. Tendons attach muscle to bone. Ligaments and tendons are fibrous connective tissue ...

Intervertebral Discs Between two vertebrae lies a gel-like cushion called an intervertebral disc. When you walk, or run, the dis ...

pain. The cracks or tears that develop within the annulus fibrosus can also become a source of pain. Back pain that is caused by ...