Meningitis is an infection of the tissue that covers the brain and spinal cord.
It's also present in spinal fluid and, in very small quantities, in the blood.
General or spinal anesthesia is used, and a catheter remains for up to seven days after the surgery.
Summary of Background Data. Posterior spinal fusion for scoliosis is used widely in DMD, although the long-term pulmonary effects have not been well established.
We train for this and if you don't get it right, and are not in the correct ejection posture, you can sustain severe spinal cord injuries or even worse.
However, the influence of spinal flexion on the spinal cord and the detailed origins of this disease are unknown.
Methods Disc excision and enlargement of the spinal nerve root canal were performed for 83 cases.
Geeta Iyengar says if the bottoms of the feet go even a little wrong the spinal muscles and the muscles of the pubic region also go wrong.
"Multiple sclerosis (MS): Disease of the Brain and spinal cord in which gradual, patchy destruction of the myelin sheath of nerve fibres causes interruption or disordered transmission of nerve impulses."
He had a spinal injury in that accident.
Objective To observe the effect of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis by lumbar posterolateral fusion and decompression.
The diagnosis is supported or confirmed by growing the bacteria from specimens of spinal fluid or blood, by agglutination tests or by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
The Paralympic movement began at a British hospital in the aftermath of the Second World War, when sport was introduced as a therapeutic treatment for returning servicemen with spinal injuries.
This entails examining cerebro-spinal fluid obtained by lumbar puncture and is used to determine the course of treatment.
The drug is an elixir for people who are newly injured, but the relief it offers is only partial, and many spinal-injury victims were hurt before it became available.
The box contained 35 pounds (16 kilograms) of chilled short loin with spinal bones.
Doctors at a hospital in the city of Atlanta say they have their first patient for the study which will involve the use of stem cells to treat severe spinal injuries.
It has been conjectured that she also suffered from spina bifida, a congenital disease that could have affected both spinal and leg development.
A gene implicated in spinal muscular atrophy showed an association in three populations, but not in yoruba from ibadan, Nigeria.
By having more of these cells around the spinal cord, more nerves might be repaired and can then potentially re-establish proper connections.
One theory suggests that acupuncture blocks pain signals from reaching the spinal cord or brain.
Rather, both sensations were rooted in the spinal cord.
