Sentences with phrase «vertebral compression»

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Spinal flexion places a ton of compression pressure on your vertebral discs.

Plow pose has caused strokes and been shown to cause spinal compression, impingement of vertebral arteries and overstretching of nerve tissue.

Performing situps on a stability ball greatly increases compression forces on the vertebral discs.

The most common neurosurgical diseases seen at the DVSC are cervical and thoracolumbar disc herniation, lumbosacral compression, spinal fracture and luxations, cervical vertebral instability (Wobblers disease) and atlanto - axial subluxation.

Although surgical decompression is rarely needed, destruction of the vertebrae can cause vertebral instability with secondary compression; in this case, decompressive surgery and stabilization may be indicated.2

Gait abnormalities, such as ataxia, paresis, or paralysis, may be present if secondary spinal cord or nerve root compression occurs.2 When neurologic signs are present, they correlate to the location of the discospondylitis lesion; cervical vertebral column lesions may cause tetraparesis and neck pain; thoracolumbar lesions may cause pelvic limb paresis, proprioceptive ataxia, and back pain; and lumbosacral lesions may cause a stiff, stilted pelvic limb gait.1, 2 Discospondylitis can affect any area of the vertebral column, but the most commonly affected sites are L7 to S1, caudal cervical, mid-thoracic, and the thoracolumbar spine.

Symptoms of Wobblers Syndrome are caused by pressure to the canine spinal cord due to vertebral instability caused by compression, or, deformity of vertebral discs.

In this vein, coming upon the drawings was incredibly interesting in what it showed about how fascinated Lee Bontecou was and is by the anatomy of fish — their vertebral complexities, their fins and cheeks, the negative space of whorls, pocks, dilations, compressions and the sense of biologies and even cosmologies pulsating in a bigger cosmic ether.