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Abstract Placement Of Pedicle Screws In The Cervical Spine-

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Pedicle Screws In The Cervical Spine

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 
- Orthopedic Topics: Regional Orthopaedics: Adult Spine General 

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2011 Surgical Management of Cervical Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is a complex multifactorial disease process combining both metabolic and biomechanical factors. The role for surgical intervention and choice of anterior or posterior approach is controversial. The object of this study was to review the literature and present a single-institution experience with surgical...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 
- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament 
- OCOSH Classification: Orthopaedic Procedures: Spine Surgery 

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2011 Work-life Conflict and Musculoskeletal Disorders

Conclusion: Future research and workplace interventions for the prevention of MSD need to consider WLC as an important stressor, and the MSD risk factor identified in this study.
Work-life Conflict and Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Cross-sectional Study of an Unexplored Association Oliver Hämmig; Michaela Knecht; Thomas Läubli; Georg F Bauer BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2011;12...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 
- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Back and Spinal Injuries: Back Soft Tissue Injury 

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Atlantoaxial instability eMedicine Orthopedics

Atlantoaxial instability (AAI) is characterized by excessive movement at the junction between the atlas (C1) and axis (C2) due to either a bony or ligamentous abnormality. Neurologic symptoms occur when the spinal cord is involved. The causes of AAI are varied. AAI sometimes results from trauma. Other cases occur secondary to...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Cervical Disc Disease eMedicine PMR

Cervical disc disorders encountered in physiatric practice include herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), degenerative disc disease (DDD), and internal disc disruption (IDD). HNP implies extension of disc material beyond the posterior margin of the vertebral body. Most of the herniation is made up of the annulus fibrosus. DDD involves degenerative annular...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Cervical Disk Protrusion and Lesions

Cervical disc disorders can include:
Disc herniation (prolapsed intervertebral disc)
Degenerative disc disease (cervical spondylosis)
Internal disc disruption
Infection (discitis)

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Cervical Myofascial Pain eMedicine PMR

Descriptions of myofascial pain date back to the mid 1800s when Froriep described muskelschwiele or muscle calluses. He described these calluses as tender areas in muscle that felt like a cord or band associated with rheumatic complaints. In the early 1900s, Gowers first used the term fibrositis to describe muscular...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Cervical Radiculopathy eMedicine Sports

Cervical radiculopathy is a dysfunction of a nerve root of the cervical spine. The seventh (C7; 60%) and sixth (C6; 25%) cervical nerve roots are the most commonly affected. In the younger population, cervical radiculopathy is a result of a disk herniation or an acute injury causing foraminal impingement of an...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 
- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Spinal Osteophytosis 

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Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Surgical Outcomes in the Elderly Medscape CME

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Surgical Outcomes in the Elderly
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is the most common form of spinal cord dysfunction over 55 years, and research will inform which candidates may benefit from surgery.
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is a progressive degenerative condition of the cervical spine that results in neurological deficit in either...

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- Continuing Medical Education 
- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Cervical Sprain and Strain eMedicine PMR

Cervical strain is one of the most common musculoskeletal problems encountered by generalists and neuromusculoskeletal specialists in the clinic.
One cause of cervical strain is termed cervical acceleration-deceleration injury. This is frequently called whiplash injury.
Whiplash is the most common sequela of nonfatal car injuries. Whiplash is one of the most poorly...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Deaths after Chiropractic Medscape

Objective: The aim of this study was to summarise all cases in which chiropractic spinal manipulation was followed by death.
Results: Twenty six fatalities were published in the medical literature and many more might have remained unpublished. The alleged pathology usually was a vascular accident involving the dissection of a vertebral...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Minimum detectable and minimal clinically important changes for pain in patients with nonspecific neck pain

Minimum detectable and minimal clinically important changes for pain in patients with nonspecific neck pain Francisco M Kovacs , Victor Abraira , Ana Royuela , Josep Corcoll , Luis Alegre , Miquel Tomas , Maria Antonia Mir , Alejandra Cano , Alfonso Muriel , Javier Zamora , Maria Teresa Gil del...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Myths of Whiplash

When the concept of whiplash was first introduced by Harold Crowe in 1928 at a conference, and when it first appeared in a medical publication in 1945, it was not based on scientific evidence. That is, like many great stories, the whiplash theme sprang mainly from mythology, where many explanations...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 
- Orthopedic Topics: Regional Orthopaedics: Adult Spine General 

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Os odontoideum eMedicine Orthopedics

Os odontoideum describes a condition in which the dens is separated from the axis body. Os odontoideum initially was thought to be a congenital failure of fusion of the dens to the remainder of the axis. As such, it usually is grouped with other craniocervical junction abnormalities, such as dental...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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Qigong versus Exercise versus No Therapy for Patients with Chronic Neck Pain Medscape

Conclusion. Qigong was more effective than no treatment in patients with chronic neck pain. Further studies could be designed without waiting list control and should use a larger sample to clarify the value of qigong compared to exercise therapy.
Qigong versus Exercise versus No Therapy for Patients with Chronic Neck Pain A...

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- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Spinal Diseases: Cervical 

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