Neurosurgeon, Atlanta Georgia USA. The practice specializes in sacroiliac dysfunction and disorders, as well as piriformis syndrome. We provide sacroiliac and piriformis surgery for those patients who have failed all other treatments. We also provide injections and prolotherapy.

Sports Medicine Grant is a premier group of orthopedic surgeons in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. DeGenova's expertise includes treatment of all conditions affecting the spine including arthritis, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, herniated discs, low back pain, neck pain, tumors, osteoporotic compression fractures, spondylolisthesis, stress fractures, sciatica, radiculopathy, whiplash, infections, adult scoliosis, SI (sacroiliac) joint...

I practice outpatient musculoskeletal medicine in an integrated spine center. Scope of practice includes interventional pain management techniques, including epidural injections, sacroiliac injections, selective nerve root blocks and facet blocks.
 
Appleton, WI, USA

Synonyms and related keywords: ankylosing spondylitis, Marie-Strümpell arthritis, Bechterew disease, spondyloarthritis, spondyloarthropathy, chronic inflammatory conditions, AS, inflammation of the joints, inflammation of the tendons, inflammation of the ligaments, iritis, uveitis, aortitis, pulmonary fibrosis, amyloidosis, inflammatory bowel disease
Author: Alan Schaffert, MD, Past Chief of Staff, Doctor's Medical Center of Modesto;...

J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 13, No 4, July/August 2005, 267-278. Full Text available to members. Abstract free
Erik N. Kubiak, MD, Ronald Moskovich, MD, Thomas J. Errico, MD and Paul E. Di Cesare, MD
Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that affects an estimated 350,000 persons in...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, progressive inflammatory rheumatic disease involving primarily the sacroiliac joints and the axial skeleton. The main clinical features are back pain and progressive stiffness of the spine. Oligoarthritis of the hips and shoulders, enthesopathy, and anterior uveitis are common, and involvement of the heart and...

External Hemipelvectomy refers to amputation of the innominate bone (ilium, pubis, and ischium), also known as the hemipelvis or os coxae, including the ipsilateral extremity. Other terms synonymous with hemipelvectomy are interilioabdominal amputation, interpelvioabdominal amputation, interiliosacropubic amputation, transiliac amputation, interinnominoabdominal amputation, hindquarter resection or amputation, disarticulation of the innominate bone,...

In the appendicular skeleton, one is mostly concerned with the diarthrodial synovial joints. While this type of joint is also found in the axial skeleton (the facet (a.k.a. aphophyseal) joints and portions of the sacroiliac joints), there are also many amphiarthrodial joints which are not synovial (the intervertebral disc joints)....

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) describes a phenomenon characterized by a tendency toward ossification of ligaments. It most characteristically affects the spine. Ossification of the longitudinal ligaments (especially the anterior ligaments) of the spine produces a tortuous paravertebral mass anterior to and distinct (at least radiologically) from the vertebral bodies....

This article describes a rare case of TB involving multicenters of the spine (ie, cervical, thora- columbar, sacroiliac regions) with a possible concomi- tant bacterial infection of the cervical lesion. Epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment are also discussed.
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Physicians assistant course notes on radiculopathy, myelopathy, neck ROM, neck hyperextension and hyperflexion injuries, vulnerable positions of the neck in rear end collision, initial treatment of cervical soft tissue injury, features & symptoms of acute cervical disk herniation (CDH), physical exam in cervical disk herniation, treatment and surgical indications in...

Septic Sacroiliitis: The Overlooked Diagnosis from Journal of the Southern Orthopedic Association David E. Attarian, MD, Durham, NC Abstract Infection of the sacroiliac joint is extraordinarily rare. However, the initial symptoms and signs associated with this condition are mundane, thus leading to delay in diagnosis, or even misdiagnosis. I report an extremely unusual pyogenic...

Author: Wilfred CG Peh, MBBS, MHSM, MD, FRCPE, FRCPG, FRCR, Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Senior Consultant Radiologist, Programme Office, Singapore Health Services
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Ankylosing spondylitis is a distinct disease entity characterized by inflammation of multiple...