Questions tagged [spine]
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Where does the claim that 1lb of weight loss takes 4lb of pressure off your spine come from? Is it true?
If you Google "4lb spine" there are an awful lot of pages with a quote along these lines:
For every four pounds you lose, you remove 16 pounds of pressure from your spine.
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Can dermatomal problems possibly indicate other medical conditions?
I have been reading up about dermatomes and it got me wondering if dermatomal issues can indicate potential problems further into the body than the dermis?
For a couple of examples, can say one of T1 ...
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How difficult is it to actually break someone's neck?
As a child I was told "if you break your neck, you die". I was also exposed to people who are paralyzed, due to spinal injuries.
So clearly, it happens.
In action movies and martial arts, there's ...
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What's the differences between the Herniated discs and Cervical spondylitis with cord/root compression?
For the first picture, it shows the Herniated discs and the second picture shows the cervical spondylitis.
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Can lumbar/sacral/thoracic spinal injury cause migraines?
I heard of a case where someone suffered severe migraines after a lumbar puncture.
There are two possible explanations. Firstly, the low CSF [cerebrospinal fluid] volume depletes the cushion of fluid ...
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Is there a long-term risk to sleeping in a hammock regularly?
There seems to be very little research on long-term health or spine drawbacks to sleeping in a hammock (anything besides individuals informal blog-type posts).
Just one study about sleeping in a ...
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Any known values of density $(kgm^-3)$ of white and gray matter in the spinal cord (humans or pigs)? [closed]
Need to know the density of spinal cord tissue to evaluate the shear modulus from ultrasound elastography (shear wave velocity) measurements, but need the density of the tissue to compute this.
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Upper Thoracic Pain with Coughing Sensation and Slight Nausea [closed]
What are some possible conditions that can cause the following symptoms?
Dull muscular pain between shoulder blades in the center of the back, in the T3-T7 region.
Pain is often triggered or made ...
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Can spine misalignment be responsible for eye conditions?
Can some eye conditions be explained by a problem in a given spine vertebra? We know that the spine is connected to the nervous system, I already saw some charts connecting each vertebra to an organ ...
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Can performing "Yogasanas" regularly, help increase a person's existing height?
"Yogasanas" have some astonishing health benefits, but can it help in making a person taller?
I've searched and found that some "Aasanas" do actually help besides performing "Suryanamaskar" (Sun ...
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Protrusion or Extrusion?
Here is an MRI picture of someone who suffers from a backache. Does any one know that his problem is disk extrusion or disk protrusion?
It does not seems to be a disk extrusion, yes?
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Who are some of the world's most recognized experts on the tailbone/coccyx?
Does anyone know of any researchers or practitioners that have extremely deep understanding of the tailbone/coccyx?
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Are chiropractors the only professionals who will "adjust" the spine?
I've had various periods of extended back pain that chiropractors can relieve by "adjusting" (a.k.a. "cracking") my spine in just a moment, providing immediate and long-term relief from pain sometimes ...
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Ankylosing Spondylitis early diagnosis [closed]
My girlfriend is 22 and has a condition of ankylosing spondylitis. She has to take pain killers every day, especially when the weather is more humid or cold, otherwise her lower back keeps hurting. ...
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Is there an MRI proof of regenerated human intervertebral disc in the spine?
I have read lots of research reports, surveyed Regenexx, Mesoblast, even seen MRI proof of disc regeneration in animals. However I have yet to see a study where over 20 people benefited (Regenexx does ...
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