Acupuncture treatment of 32 cases of lumbar intervertebral disc protrusion

<p>There are many errors found in the content of textbook in National Higher Education.For example:One of the errors found in the“Surgery”version no 418 is about movement system disease section.In chapter 677 Section III,the content misinterpretation of the cause of low back pain is the intervertebral disc protrusion that stimulate the outer annulus and the posterior longitudinal ligament in the sinus nerve fibers.For the past twenty years,feedbacks had been reflected repeatedly to the involved party but no one had admitted the contents of the textbook are wrong.The errors had brought great economy loss,physical and mental pain to patients.Every year,the country has to spend billions of dollars in the waste of medical reform reimbursement.This article is aimed to discuss about low back pain is not due to lumbar disc herniation.</p>

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Endoscopic removal of nucleus pulposus of intervertebral disc on lumbar intervertebral disc protrusion and the influence on inflammatory factors and immune function

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine ◽

10.3892/etm.2019.8223 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Gang Xu ◽

Changchun Zhang ◽

Kun Zhu ◽

Zhengqi Bao ◽

Pinghui Zhou ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intervertebral Disc ◽

Immune Function ◽

Nucleus Pulposus ◽

Inflammatory Factors ◽

Endoscopic Removal ◽

Lumbar Intervertebral Disc ◽

Disc Protrusion

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Acupuncture treatment for feline multifocal intervertebral disc disease

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery ◽

10.1016/j.jfms.2008.11.013 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 706-710 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Keum Hwa Choi ◽

Sara A. Hill

Keyword(s):

Intervertebral Disc ◽

Acupuncture Treatment ◽

Medical Center ◽

Clinical Signs ◽

High Dose ◽

Intervertebral Disc Disease ◽

Heat Accumulation ◽

Disc Disease ◽

Disc Protrusion ◽

First Case

A 14-year-old male neutered domestic shorthair cat was admitted to the Veterinary Medical Center, University of Minnesota for evaluation of severe hind limb ataxia, atrophy and paresis. Diagnosis based on physical examination, neurological assessment and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was multifocal intervertebral disc disease (IVDD) with dorsal disc protrusion throughout the thoracic and cranial lumbar spine. The Oriental Medicine (OM) diagnosis (pattern identification) was painful obstruction (Bi) syndrome caused by phlegm-heat accumulation with blood stagnation in the spine. High dose prednisolone therapy (1.25 mg/kg PO, once daily) initially did not show any significant improvement in clinical signs. The cat was then treated with several modes of acupuncture treatment including dry needle acupuncture, electro-acupuncture and scalp acupuncture along with Tui-Na (hand manipulation in OM) and physical therapy. Significant improvements in mobility, proprioception and spinal posture were noticed and the cat was able to rise, walk and run 4 months after starting acupuncture treatments. This is the first case report of feline IVDD with multiple sites of disc compression which was successfully treated with several modes of acupuncture treatment.

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Computed Tomographic, Myelographic, and Operative Findings in Patients with Suspected Herniated Lumbar Discs

Neurosurgery ◽

10.1227/00006123-198302000-00009 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 184-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Nazih A. Moufarrij ◽

Russell W. Hardy ◽

Meredith A. Weinstein

Keyword(s):

Computed Tomography ◽

Intervertebral Disc ◽

Clinical Diagnosis ◽

Herniated Disc ◽

Lumbar Intervertebral Disc ◽

Disc Protrusion ◽

Ct Myelography ◽

Computed Tomographic ◽

Canal Stenosis ◽

Operative Findings

Abstract Fifty patients presenting with a suspected herniated lumbar intervertebral disc were evaluated with sector computed tomography (CT). Excluded from this series were patients with prior lumbar laminectomy or a clinical diagnosis of lumbar canal stenosis. Forty-six of the patients also underwent preoperative lumbar myelography. All patients subsequently underwent laminectomy. In 40 patients (80%), CT was positive. In the remaining 10 patients (20%), it was negative; in this group the myelogram correctly predicted the lesion in 8 (80%), Sector CT correctly predicted the nature of the lesion in 24 patients (48%), was incorrect in 14 (28%), and gave incomplete findings in 12 (24%). CT was most accurate when it demonstrated a disc protrusion as the only finding. In this group, sector CT correctly predicted the operative findings in 24 of 25 patients (96%). CT was less accurate when spondylitic compression was diagnosed. This study suggests that sector CT is a useful test in the evaluation of patients with sciatica and that, when a soft herniated disc is demonstrated on CT, myelography may be omitted.

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