Minimal Access Limb Salvage Health Feed

The spinal cord is such a crucial part of the body, and an injury to it can really change people s lives for the worse. After all, controlling our movements, our sense of feeling and directing the limbs, among other things, makes it so very important. It does happen sometimes that injury to it requires surgery. Isn t the prospect of the surgery going wrong quite a scary one?

For decades, whenever surgery to the spine was required, the surgeon needed to cut open the skin covering the spi...more

The spine plays a very crucial role, both from a person s movement and sensation point of view. It carries the nervous supply for a lot of internal organs and the lower body. By virtue of its structure, it also helps in movement through the disks. Due to various reasons, spinal injury is common, causing pain along the back, lower extremities, neck etc.

Medicines and exercise are the first line of treatment for most spinal injuries. The issue, however, is that these only provide relief f...more

The spine plays a very crucial role, both from a person s movement and sensation point of view. It carries the nervous supply for a lot of internal organs and the lower body. By virtue of its structure, it also helps in movement through the disks. Due to various reasons, spinal injury is common, causing pain along the back, lower extremities, neck etc.

Medicines and exercise are the first line of treatment for most spinal injuries. The issue, however, is that these only provide relief f...more

The spine plays a very crucial role, both from a person s movement and sensation point of view. It carries the nervous supply for a lot of internal organs and the lower body. By virtue of its structure, it also helps in movement through the disks. Due to various reasons, spinal injury is common, causing pain along the back, lower extremities, neck etc.

Medicines and exercise are the first line of treatment for most spinal injuries. The issue, however, is that these only provide relief f...more

The spine plays a very crucial role, both from a person s movement and sensation point of view. It carries the nervous supply for a lot of internal organs and the lower body. By virtue of its structure, it also helps in movement through the disks. Due to various reasons, spinal injury is common, causing pain along the back, lower extremities, neck etc.

Medicines and exercise are the first line of treatment for most spinal injuries. The issue, however, is that these only provide relief f...more

The QRS is said to be low voltage when:
The amplitudes of all the QRS complexes in the limb leads are < 5 mm; or
The amplitudes of all the QRS complexes in the precordial leads are < 10 mm
Low voltage is produced by…
The “damping” effect of increased layers of fluid, fat or air between the heart and the recording electrode.
Loss of viable myocardium.
Diffuse infiltration or myxoedematous involvement of the heart.

Spine surgery is conventionally performed as open surgery , which means the region being worked on is opened with a long entry point to permit the surgeon to view and access the area. Technical and scientific advances have permitted more back and neck conditions to be treated with a less obtrusive surgical technique. The minimal invasive spine surgery (MISS) does not include a long cut, and it prevents causing damage to the muscles around the spine. As a rule, this causes less pain after the su...more

it would take 3 to 6 months to cure. And Tailor's brace along with it limiting forward bending, weight lifting, sitting on the floor and crossed leg sitting etc, along with advanced physiotherapy will help

Now that summer season is there in its full glory, we can already see our hair taking the brunt. In summers, hair actually does get damaged more because of sweat, which attracts dirt and also the frequent hair wash if done with harsh shampoos also worsens the situation. So what can we do to lessen the damage:

1. Wash your hair frequently but use mild shampoos-
It is good to wash hair daily or alternate days to remove the sweat from the scalp, but make sure to use an sls free shampo...more

There's slipped disc happened at the area of d11 and d 12 causing minimal spinal cord indentation will help