Sentences with phrase «in spinal surgery»

Multiple injuries resulting in spinal surgery.

At trial, the plaintiff called a medical expert in spinal surgery and a technical expert in vocational rehabilitation.

Set in Kerala, India, during the 1940s, The Maramon Convention follows «the life of a precocious girl who escapes her town in southern India to become a pioneering physician in spinal surgery.»

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A physician assistant, specializing in neurosurgery, Hensler developed a novel way to separate bone from other tissue and fluid during spinal fusion surgery.

Haider: By bridging materials science, mechanical design, and advanced sterilization techniques to pre-attach spinal implants onto disposable delivery instruments, we've developed a technology that outperforms traditional systems in mechanical consistency and the risk of pathogen transmission, and that fundamentally changes the internal logistics of both hospitals and outpatient surgery centers.

Woods, of course, is on the comeback trail after undergoing spinal fusion surgery last April and returning to official PGA Tour competition in January at Torrey Pines.

After undergoing spinal fusion surgery late last year, he had problems practicing and admitted that he has been in significant pain since the procedure.

Dr. Clement K. Jones is a board certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in spine surgery and treatment of spinal disorders for the Spine Care Institute of San Francisco, located within Saint Francis Memorial Hospital.

Since returning to the PGA Tour after a yearlong absence to have spinal fusion surgery, Woods has made six cuts in seven events and has managed two top - 5 finishes.

The 14 - time major champion has undergone four back surgeries since March 2014, the most recent being a spinal fusion procedure in April 2017.

Chief of spinal surgery at Cedar Sinai Dr. Lionel Hunt said on ESPN radio that Howard's health should not be a concern, especially when compared to the departed Andrew Bynum, currently undergoing treatment on his knees in Germany.

If surgery is performed the surgeon tries to open up the channel in vertebrae where the spinal cord goes by removing some bone where it presses on the nerves.

The Tethered Spinal Cord and Spina Bifida Surgery Program at Floating Hospital for Children offers surgical options to treat these conditions in our downtown Boston pediatric hospital.

This includes a share of 11th at last week's Players Championship in the eight events he has played since returning to the PGA Tour this year after spinal fusion surgery in April 2017.

He drew the attention of the court to Exhibit three attached to the application, which is a letter dated February 14, 2018 addressed to Dr. Raymond Onwuelo by Mr. Andrean T. H. Kessy, a Neurological and Spinal Surgery Consultant in London, stating detailed health status of Metuh.

«There are currently no therapies which successfully reverse the damage seen in the more than 12,000 individuals who suffer a spinal cord injury each year in the United States alone,» says Dr. Richard G. Fessler, professor of neurological surgery at Rush University Medical Center and principal investigator for the Phase 1 clinical trial involving AST - OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells).

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Designed for use in spinal fusion surgery of the lower back, Infuse consists of a titanium cage that houses a collagen sponge soaked in bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), a growth factor that signals bone - forming cells to produce new tissue.

The specific vertebrae fused in their surgeries were then compared, revealing to the authors that more dramatic spinal fusions — those higher up along the spine — may increase the risk of developing PJK.

Still, because surgery for spina bifida is straightforward — sealing an opening in the spinal column, which fails to close around the spinal cord as it should — surgeons began offering it prenatally more than 10 years ago.

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.

A new study appearing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that these surgeries are generally safe with mortality rates decreasing for total hip (THR) and total knee (TKR) replacement and spinal fusion surgeries, and complication rates decreasing for total knee replacement and spinal fusion in patients with few or no comorbidities (other conditions or diseases).

This bizarre shift of tissue systems, known as heterotopic ossification in most cases, can be brought on with spinal cord injury, amputation and even hip surgery.

Patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery who are treated with methadone during the procedure require significantly less intravenous and oral opioids to manage postoperative pain, reports a new study published in the May issue of Anesthesiology, the peer - reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).

He is working closely with a team of physicians at the UNM Cancer Center to conduct these trials: M. Omar Chohan, MD, a neurosurgeon who specializes in surgery for tumors of the brain and spinal cord; Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist who is an expert in the radiation therapy of brain tumors; and Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, a newly recruited medical oncologist to the UNM Cancer Center who is an expert in cancers of the lung, brain and spinal cord, and early phase clinical trials.

The institute's physicians are experts in services such as adult reconstructive surgery, hand, upper extremity and microvascular surgery, shoulder and elbow surgery, arthroscopic surgery, pediatric orthopedics, treatment for spinal conditions, sports medicine, complete management of simple and complex fractures, incomplete bone healing, bone deformities and bone infections, and bone and soft tissue tumors.

Surgery may also be instrumental in helping to control symptoms such as bowel obstruction or spinal cord compression.

With its greater ease of surgery and robust allodynia, the ligation of spinal nerves L4 / L5 optimizes the SNL model in mice.

However, the spinal nerve L5 / 6 ligation model has not been widely utilized in mice, in part because surgery, particularly ligation of mouse L6, and behavioral testing in such small and active animals are challenging.

Giving opioids to animals to quell pain after surgery prolongs pain for more than three weeks and primes specialized immune cells in the spinal cord to be more reactive to pain, according to a new study by the University...

The same thing that makes methylene blue a credible treatment for disk problems also makes it dangerous, explains Victor Khabie, MD, the co-chief of orthopedic surgery at Northern Westchester Hospital, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. «Methylene blue is a very corrosive substance to the spinal cord and covering,» he says.

Eight - time Mr. Olympia and perhaps one of the greatest and strongest bodybuilders of all time, Ronnie Coleman, is now 52 years old and claims that if he could go back in time, he would have trained even harder, even though his heavy lifting routine came with a high price — he has had seven surgeries since 2007, mostly as a result of decompressed spinal disks.

There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that used to be commonplace (such as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..

Creatine is POSSIBLY INEFFECTIVE in improving aerobic (endurance) performance [2,5] or performance in women [5], cyclists [5], rowers [5], swimmers [5] or other highly trained [2] or older people [2,5] or in improving spinal muscular atrophy or muscle strength recovery after surgery [5].

Regular vigorous exercise is good for our health in general — but not immediately after heart bypass or spinal surgery....

Where the two come together is that in order to reduce pain from the spinal injury and not wanting either surgery or cortisone steroid injections for the rest of my life, I turned to a book by Neal Barnard, M.D. and nutritional researcher, entitled, Foods That Fight Pain.

in a wheelchair from emergency spinal surgery, and myself needed to find a car that a deer decided to destroy.

Then you have people like me that are just not good at hitting them out of the way... Add two neck surgeries (acdf & posterior placement of rods), endometrial ablation (& tubal ligation as a necessity for the ablation), a gallbladder removal, worsening spinal stenosis and degenerative disease, many bad situations related to life in general, etc, etc, etc... It has not been a good 10 years, no matter how you slice it.

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We have never had to use the coverage until recently, when our furchild had several emergency visits and finally, a neurological consult with the best Veterinary Neurologist in Florida to get the spinal surgery that he needed.

After admission to the Neurology / Neurosurgery Service and an examination by Dr. Amanda Taylor, Bailey was diagnosed with Degenerative Myelopathy (DM), a progressive spinal cord disease in which nerves lose their ability to conduct signals from the brain to the limbs DM leads to a final, heartbreaking state: the inability to walk, and unfortunately, there is no medication or surgery available.

Disc surgery reduces pressure on the spinal cord by removing a portion of the ruptured disc or a portion of bone in the area.

The University of Missouri says the Leathermans» son, Daniel, drove the dog to its veterinary hospital in Columbia, where veterinarians performed spinal surgery that gave Sugar back the use of her legs.

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She desperately needs surgery as one of the discs in her spine has slipped and is protruding into her spinal cord.

The best option at that point was to go immediately into surgery and do a hemilaminectomy — removal of part of the vertebrae in order to remove any infected material and decompress the spinal cord.

He came to us in July of 2013 after surgery to address a traumatic spinal injury that left his rear limbs paralyzed.

In the elbow, the OCD lesion involving the distal (furthest away from spinal cord) border of the medial epicondyle can be treated conservatively or with surgery.

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