Category: Degenerative Spine Care

Examination of spine is an essential skill to master that will benefit you throughout your medical and surgical career. This article describes the basic anatomy and surface markings of the spine that will aid your examination and also discusses diagnostic Read More …

Allodynia is the experience of pain from stimuli that isn’t normally painful. People with migraine will often describe this experience by saying, “My hair hurts.” Brushing the hair may produce pain, as will other simple activities such as washing your face, Read More …

Spinal cord stimulation uses pulsed electrical energy near the spinal cord to manage pain. Initially, this technique applied pulsed energy in the intrathecal space.[rx] Presently, neuromodulation involves the implantation of leads in the epidural space. A similar principle utilizes the central nervous Read More …

Frontotemporal Degeneration Disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative, heterogeneous group of non-Alzheimer dementias disorder characterized by loss of intellectual functions, such as memory problems, impaired abstract thinking, reasoning, behavioral changes, and language deficits with frontal and temporal cortical degeneration and executive Read More …

What is Multiple Sclerosis?/Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, disabling neurological disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by chronic inflammation, demyelination, gliosis, and neuronal loss. In MS, the immune system cells that normally protect us from viruses, bacteria, Read More …

What Is Spinal Cord Injury?/A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function, such as mobility and/or feeling. Frequent causes of spinal cord injuries are trauma (car accident, gunshot, falls, etc.) or disease (polio, spina bifida, Friedreich’s ataxia, etc.). Read More …

Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrome/Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune, hypercoagulable, thrombo inflammatory, and thrombosis and/or pregnancy complications syndrome caused by the persistent presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (APL) in plasma of patients with vascular thrombosis and/or pregnancy morbidity along with persistent Read More …

What is meningitis? What is encephalitis?/Infections and other disorders affecting the brain and spinal cord can activate the immune system, which leads to inflammation.  These diseases, and the resulting inflammation, can produce a wide range of symptoms, including fever, headache, Read More …

Acute Transverse Myelitis/Myelitis is an acute or subacute rare demyelinating and immune-mediated inflammatory myelopathy disorder of the central nervous system and spinal cord resulting in potentially disabling neurological deficits such as motor weakness and sensory deficits, as well as autonomic Read More …

Myelitis is an acute or subacute rare demyelinating and immune-mediated inflammatory myelopathy disorder of the central nervous system and spinal cord resulting in potentially disabling neurological deficits such as motor weakness and sensory deficits, as well as autonomic dysfunction. It Read More …

Post Surgical Pain Symptoms/Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a complex set of post-surgical pain symptoms encountered after a patient has had surgery on the lumbar spine for disc-related abnormal pathology. The patient may feel present with recurrent pain and Read More …

Failed Back Syndrome/Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a complex set of post-surgical pain symptoms encountered after a patient has had surgery on the lumbar spine for disc-related abnormal pathology. The patient may feel present with recurrent pain and persistent Read More …