Atlanto-axial subluxation is the inability between the first and second cervical vertebrae, which can occur only when the neck is bent.
The English-language literature uses the term "failed back surgery syndrome" (FBSS), a syndrome of an unsuccessful operation on the spine, which is defined as prolonged or recurring chronic pain in the lower back and / or in the legs after an anatomically successful spinal surgery.
Arterio-venous malformations inside or around the spinal cord can cause spinal cord compression, parenchymal hemorrhage, subarchnoid hemorrhage, or a combination of these phenomena.
Spinal cord infarction is usually caused by damage to the extarvertebral arteries. Symptoms include sudden and severe back pain, bilateral flaccid paresis of the limbs, a decrease in sensitivity, in particular pain and temperature.
Spinal subdural or epidural hematoma is the accumulation of blood in the subdural or epidural space, which can cause compression of the spinal cord.
Recommendations of the united working groups of the North American Spine Society, the American Society of Spine Radiology and the American Society of Neuroradiology,
Pain in the back and / or in the leg can be a symptom of diseases: systemic, visceral, vascular, neurological disorders. Pseudospinal pain is not uncommon
The desire to fully examine a patient often leads doctors to designate studies that duplicate each other in the nature of the information received.
Deformation of the spine is called the deviation of the spine as a whole, its sections or individual segments from the middle physiological position in any of the three planes - frontal, sagittal, horizontal.
Among the structural deformations of the spine, the most frequent are idiopathic scoliosis (i.e., scoliosis with an unknown etiology), whose prevalence in the population reaches 15.3%.