Tackling Back and Neck Pain in Day to Day Life

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Tackling Back and Neck Problems in Day-to-day Life

• Dr. Yogesh K. Pithwa,
• Fellowship in Advanced Spine Surgery and Spinal
  Deformity Correction, USA, FRANCE, JAPAN
• FNB Spine Surgery, MS Ortho GOLD MEDAL, DNB
  Ortho, MNAMS Ortho, D. Ortho, MBBS
• Visiting Surgeon Washington University, St.
  Louis, USA
• Institut Calot, Berck, FRANCE
• Tohoku University,
  Sendai, JAPAN
• Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JAPAN
• Consultant Spine Surgeon,
• Sattvik Spine Foundation, Jayanagar,
• HOSMAT Hospital

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He Is the BACKBONE of Our Organization!
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki BROKE THE BACK
of the Japanese
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You Are Only As Strong As Your Back Is!
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• 80 of the adult population suffers from back
  pain and
• 40 suffers from neck pain
• at least once in lifetime

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Know Your Spine!
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Multiple Bones Stacked One on Top of Another!
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The Spine Does Not Have Stability of Its Own!
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Most Spinal Problems Relate to Life-style Factors
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What is an ideal type of chair?
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Working on a Computer

• Eye level
• Bifocals
• Watch your wrists!!

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Working on a Computer

• Eye level
• Bifocals
• Watch your wrists!!

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Working on a Computer

• Eye level
• Bifocals
• Watch your wrists!!

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What Kind of Bed Is Ideal?
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What Is the Ideal Position to Sleep?
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How NOT to Sleep!
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How to Lift up a Weight From the Ground?
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How to Stand
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Standing for a Long Time
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Sitting With Legs Hanging Down
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Sitting on a Couch
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Driving a Car
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Give your back a break!!!
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Traveling
Like a hammer hitting on your spine!!!
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Smoking

• Interferes with the nutrition of the
  intervertebral disc

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Does Body Weight Affect the Spine?
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Stress Can Lead to Back and Neck Pain
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Back and Neck Are the Mirrors of the Mind!
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How Does One Strengthen the Spine?
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How Does One Strengthen the Spine?
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Alarm Bells!!

• Pain radiating into the hands or legs

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Alarm Bells!!

• Persistent back pain

Spondylolisthesis
Degenerative disk disease

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Pain at rest / at night
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• Weakness or numbness in a selective pattern over
  the limbs

Sattvik Spine Foundation, Jayanagar 4th T
Block, 080 42068257/ 9880659652/ 9341394471
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• Pain in the calf/ buttocks on walking/ standing
  for some time
• SPINAL CANAL STENOSIS

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• Unsteadiness while walking
• Relegated to old-age changes
• CERVICAL/ THORACIC MYELOPATHY

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• History of malignancy elsewhere in the body
• Unexplained weight loss
• SPINAL METASTASES/ MALIGNANCY

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• Pain in children
• SCHEUERMANNS DISEASE
• TETHERED CORD
• NONIDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

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• Fever, tuberculosis, tuberculosis contact

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• Early morning joint stiffness, lasting gt30
  minutes and present continuously for at least 6
  weeks
• ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS

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Spinal Deformity

• Incidence of 3-5 per 1000

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Simple Screening Can Avoid Major Deformities
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Early Intervention gt Successful Outcome
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Neglected Deformities
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Neglected Deformities
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Neglected Deformities
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Spinal Trauma
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No one can be a real exception!
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Urgent Referral

• Hemodynamic stabilization

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Is Spine Surgery Safe?
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Misconceptions Galore!

• What if I get paralysed?
• Will I be able to walk again?
• What if I lose control over my urination/ bowel
  motion?

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Imaging Facilities
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Is Spine Surgery Safe?
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Is Spine Surgery Safe?
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International Frontiers in Training
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Everything in life comes with an element of risk

• Benefits outweigh the risks by a factor of 101

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Thank you for your attention
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Dr. Yogesh Pithwa

• Email info_at_spine-surgeon.org/ yogeshkp1974_at_gmail.
  com
• Website www.spine-surgeon.org