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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Radiography of the lumbar spine in primary care patients with low back pain of at least six weeks duration is not associated with improved patient functioning, severity of pain or overall health status but is associated with an increased workload for doctors.
It is now being used and recommended by back sufferers, some with severe disorders of the lumbar spine and some who have undergone surgery.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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There is some evidence to suggest that the degree of lordosis of the lumbar spine influences the likelihood of developing spinal disorders, and that during spinal surgery efforts should be made to reconstruct the 'normal' lordosis to assist in effecting a successful outcome.
It was then pointed out to the jury that spine surgeons routinely modified all of the available spinal implant devices by placing bone screws in the lumbar pedicles because such use greatly enhanced the device's safety and effectiveness and improved the success rate of back fusion surgery.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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The vertebrae in the lumbar spine area are the largest of the entire spine, so the lumbar spinal canal is larger than in the cervical or thoracic parts of the spine.
These hamstring stretches increase pelvis and lumbar spine flexibility without involving the lumbar spine.
The abdominal musculature may flex the lumbar spine through its action on the superficial portion of the dorsolumbar fascia.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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A posterior lumbar fusion allows the surgeon to place rods and screws directly into the bone - to fuse the spine and decrease and in most cases, eliminate the chronic, often debilitating back pain.
A CT or MR of the lumbar spine can exclude concomitant pathology and a bone scan may localize the joint in question.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The amplitude of the lumbar intevertebral motion in the normal subject's spine decreased approximately sixfold when the AAI impulses were delivered further from the IMD measurement site.
There is no statistical evidence published from a review of radiographs of the lumbar spine that would support that conclusion.
When dealing with patients with both cervical and lumbar stenosis, the predominant symptoms and the degree of stenosis by imaging studies should be considered in deciding which area of the spine should be treated first.
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