Sentences with phrase «degenerative back condition»

Not exact matches

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

Spinal traction is used to treat herniated discs, sciatica, degenerative disc disease, pinched nerves, and many other back conditions.

It's important to be aware of and able to correct these conditions, as they set the stage for poor exercise technique, compensation patterns, injuries, lower back pain, and in some cases, disorders such as osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease.

Dog wheelchairs are usually given to dogs who have Degenerative Myelopathy (DM), which is an awful condition that affects a dog's spinal cord and slowly takes feeling and mobility away from part of the dog's body — usually the back legs.

Conditions treated with rehab therapy... Arthritis Back Pain / IVDD Cauda Equina Syndrome Degenerative Myelopathy (DM) Elbow & Hip Dysplasia Muscle Injuries Neck Pain / Wobblers Nerve Injury Neuromuscular Disease Obesity Tendon Injury Condition...

While there are many different reasons why this condition could occur, back leg weakness is a term that is often used to refer to Degenerative Myelopathy (DM), a disease of the spinal cord.

These conditions include degenerative joint diseases such as hip dysplasia and spondylosis; cervical instability; acute neck pain; intervertebral disk disease; autonomic nervous system problems such as urinary and fecal incontinence; musculoskeletal weakness or pain that resists conventional diagnosis and treatment; and chronic back and neck pain.

As originally reported on the Edmonton Holistic Veterinary Blog in 2012, Bronko, a German Shepherd police dog, was able to get back to work after almost losing his career to a crippling condition known as degenerative myelopathy.

Mesotherapy is effective in treating degenerative arthritis or kissing spines in a horse's back and the cervical vertebrae by reversing the physiology of these conditions to stop the pain spasm cycle.

This is a huge benefit in treating chronic conditions such as arthritis, hip dysplasia, back disease or injury, and degenerative joint diseases.

It also appears that the medical experts agree there is evidence of a pre-existing degenerative condition in the plaintiff's back and neck, whether D.I.S.H. or something else.

[318] In arriving at this conclusion I accept the opinion of Dr. Maloon, in preference to that of the plaintiff's medical experts, that the soft tissue injuries the plaintiff sustained in the accident would not have been «significant enough to alter the natural history of her neck or low back condition» and that the «disc herniation would be the result of the natural history of the lumbar degenerative disc disease and not the result of injuries that she may have sustained in [the accident].»

[76] Counsel for the defendant conceded that Mr. Tchao suffered a soft tissue injury to his lower back in the accident, but submitted that Mr. Tchao had recovered from that injury by some point in 2005, and that his ongoing symptoms relate to his pre-existing degenerative condition.

[83] There was very little evidence concerning what lower back problems the plaintiff would likely have suffered in the future as a result of his pre-existing degenerative condition, in the absence of the accident.