Thin, slippery cervical mucus that resembles a raw egg white is one sign of ovulation during the most fertile time of the month. Some people chart this information when trying to conceive. Others ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Those were the words of Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon following the publication of a 2017 report which criticised “unacceptable” delays in providing spinal surgery to these children.

Hirschfeld et al. 3 have recently reported on the results of skin grafting at the Detroit Receiving Hospital. They state that, prior to the study, loss of 25 per cent or more of the grafted skin ...

Several autopsy series have been reported 1,2 in which detailed search of the spine discloses the frequency ... for hypalgesia along the 6th cervical dermatome on the dorsum of the right hand.

"Cervical cancer is highly preventable when detected early, and yet, over 4,000 American women will die this year of cervical cancer primarily due to inadequate screening. Our goal is to make HPV ...

The use of smartphones for a long time has led to "tech neck", causing a hunched cervical spine and even spinal cord damage. A survey of 425 phone-using students revealed a 46.6 percent prevalence of ...

is the most commonly used decompressive procedure in the cervical spine and is used for the treatment of single or multiple level disc disease. [4] The disc is removed anteriorly; discs that are ...

If the lumbar spine is the site of treatment, sideways movement will be more restricted, although the patient will still be able to bend forward from the hips. Similarly, fusion in the cervical spine ...

Spinal cord injury leads to loss of innervation of skeletal muscle, decreased motor function, and significantly reduced load on skeletal muscle, resulting in atrophy. Factors such as braking, hormone ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 15 women with FM and 15 healthy controls were obtained in the cervical spinal cord and brainstem at 3 tesla using previously established methods. In ...