SPINE DISORDERS

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SPINE DISORDERS
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Complex structureSpine has to move transmit
weight-protect the spinal cord
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Clinical examinationLook-Feel-Move
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Waddels signs
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Disc degeneration and prolapse

• Rupture
• Prolapse
• Protrusion
• Herniation

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Intervertebral disk

• Nucleus pulposus protein polysaccharide,
  collagen fibres, chondroid cells, 80 water
• Annulus fibrosis concentric layers of fibrus
  tissue

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Spinal stenosis

• Congenital achondroplasia,hypochondroplasia
• Post degenerative
• Post spondylolisthetic
• Iatrogenic
• Miscellaneous Pagets,tumors,TB

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Infections

• Tuberculosis
• Pyogenic spondylitis
• Discitis

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Spondylolysis-Spondylolisthesis

• Dysplastic some of the facets are displastic
• Lytic stress fracture
• Degenerative
• Post traumatic
• Pathological
• Iatrogenic