The lumbar intervertebral disc /
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Thieme Medical Publishers, c2010. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 305 p.) : col. ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9974448 |
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Lumbar intervertebral disc. |
Table of Contents:
- Basic science
- Epidemiology and economics of intervertebral disc disease
- Anatomy and physiology of the lumbar intervertebral disc and endplates
- Biology of the lumbar intervertebral disc
- Biomechanics of the lumbar intervertebral disc
- Mechanisms of pain from intervertebral discs
- Biology and biomechanics of the spinal degenerative cascade
- Disc herniation
- Pathophysiology and etiology of intervertebral disc herniation
- Clinical features of herniated nucleus pulposus
- Nonsurgical treatment of herniated nucleus pulposus
- Percutaneous decompression
- Decompressive surgery for herniated nucleus pulposus (open, micro, and minimally invasive approaches)
- Annular repair and barrier technologies
- Degenerative disc disease
- Clinical presentation of disc degeneration
- Degenerative disc imaging
- Provocative testing (discography)
- Presurgical psychological screening
- Treatment of degenerative disc disease
- Mechanical diagnosis and therapy
- Role of education and back schools
- Cognitive therapy for symptomatic disc degeneration
- Biologic therapies for disc repair
- Intradiscal therapy
- Nucleus augmentation
- Interspinous devices
- Posterior nonfusion pedicle screw-based stabilization
- Lumbar spine arthroplasty
- Spinal fusion: posterior approaches
- Spinal fusion: anterior approach
- Spinal fusion: combined anteroposterior approach
- Minimally invasive spinal fusion procedures
- Biologics for spinal fusion
- Postoperative rehabilitation of lumbar spine patients
- Surgical treatment of degenerative lumbar disc disease: a critical review.