What kind of formal education are the chiropractic schools teaching in terms of understanding pain? I know 11 years ago when I graduated we had a few lectures about nociception and the neural pathways and networks involved in bottom up…
Vertebral LVs connect to peripheral sensory and sympathetic ganglia and form metameric vertebral circuits connecting to lymph nodes and the thoracic duct. They drain the epidural space and the dura mater around the spinal cord and associate with leukocytes. Vertebral…
In fact, our review will highlight many pain neuroimaging studies that have reported some brainstem involvement in nociceptive processing and chronic pain pathology. However, we note that with recent advances in neuroimaging leading to improved spatial and temporal resolution, more…
Measures that represent the sacral morphology, particularly SK, and the position of the sacrum in space correlated strongly with the PI and contributed strongly to a predictive equation. These findings may direct further efforts to explore how the PI is…
Concentrations of IL-8 in CSF were significantly higher in LDH patients compared to DDD patients and controls.•In LDH patients there was a positive correlation of IL-8 concentrations between CSF and serum.•Elevated IL-8 in CSF was associated with increased pain intensity…
The percentage of the spinal canal occupied by a herniated disc does not predict which patients will fail nonoperative treatment and require surgery within 2 years after undergoing a lumbar spine MRI scan.Effect of Lumbar Disc Herniation Size on the…
Smoking is most strongly associated with spine pain (odds ratio [OR] = 2.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.21-3.77), followed by headache (OR = 2.47, 95% CI = 1.73-3.53), trunk pain (OR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.45-2.74), and limb…
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Four main adverse joint findings have been structurally observed in patients after IACS injections: accelerated OA progression, subchondral insufficiency fracture, complications of osteonecrosis, and rapid joint destruction, including bone loss. Physicians, including radiologists, should be familiar with imaging findings and…
“Studies reporting this assessment in subjects with cervical spondylosis (CS) have not previously been investigated… This study demonstrated that cervical proprioceptive errors (JPEs) are significantly larger in the CS group than in the healthy control group indicating that cervical proprioception…