Intervertebral Disk Disorders (Subscribe)  

Overview of what it is and how it can be treated through medication, posture, and exercise. Highly Reputable

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Search string allintitle: (disk OR disc) (herniation OR herniated)>53,000 July 2007

The intervertebral disk is the largest avascular structure in the body. It arises from notochordal cells between the cartilaginous endplates, which regress from about 50% of the disk space at birth to about 5% in the adult, with chondrocytes replacing the notochordal cells. Intervertebral disks are located in the spinal...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Notes on anatomy. Sections - Cervical Spine, Thoracic Spine, Lumbar Spine

This search uses the MeSH term for Herniated Disk - search string "Intervertebral Disk Displacement"[Majr]
9400 articles returned July 2007 (so needs refinement by the addition of more terms to define the subject of interest more closely)

Intramuscular Oxygen-Ozone Therapy in the Treatment of Acute Back Pain With Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Clinical Trial of Active and Simulated Lumbar Paravertebral Injection
Conclusion: Treatment of LBP and sciatica is a major concern. Although the natural history of acute LBP is often self-limiting, conservative therapies are not...

Genetics highlights relationships between biological systems, and as the number of defi ned osteoarthritis susceptibility alleles increases, there is the natural tendency to assess whether the alleles infl uence other musculoskeletal phenotypes. That has proven to be the case for the GDF5 polymorphism rs143383, a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis and several other common conditions, including lumbar-disc degeneration...

Definition A laminectomy is a surgical procedure in which the surgeon removes a portion of the bony arch, or lamina, on the dorsal surface of a vertebra, which is one of the bones that make up the human spinal column. It is done to relieve back pain that has not been... Expert

Patient satisfaction with outpatient lumbar microsurgical discectomy: a qualitative study M. Hersht, E.M. Massicotte, M. Bernstein Can J Surg, Vol. 50, No. 6, December 2007
Conclusions: Most patients appreciate the need for the health care system to save money where possible so that it can be spent in other, more resource-intensive areas....

This search uses the MeSH term for disk (disc) protrusion, herniation, slipped etc. There is a large number of returns from this search which you may need to reduce by adding terms such as cervical or microdiskectomy

Movement of the spine will compress the disc more on the inside of the curve. The distortion will vary with the degree of flexion-extension in the cervical and lumbar regions. The facets in the thoracic spine permit very little flexion, but allow rotation where the centre of radius of the...

Results of Surgery for Discogenic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Study Using Discography Versus Discoblock for Diagnosis
Fifteen patients who showed pain provocation by discography and 15 patients who experienced pain relief with discoblock were evaluated. Rates of improvement in the visual analogue scale score, Japanese Orthopedic Association Score, and Oswestry...

Overview of treatments
If you suddenly start feeling pain in your lower back or hip that radiates down from your buttock to the back of one thigh and into your leg, your problem may be a protruding disk in your lower spinal column pressing on the roots to your sciatic nerve.... Highly Reputable

A new study extends to 4 years the previously published 2-year results of research that found that spine surgery provides more rapid and greater relief in symptoms and a greater improvement in function than nonsurgical interventions for patients with lumbar disk herniation.
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Treating Pain From Disc Herniation: Clonidine vs Corticosteroid. Summary and discussion of -
Transforaminal Epidural Clonidine Versus Corticosteroid for Acute Lumbosacral Radiculopathy Due to Intervertebral Disc Herniation Burgher AH, Hoelzer BC, Schroeder DR, Wilson GA, Huntoon MA Spine. 2011;36:E293-300