Mikai Introduces New Minimally Invasive Falena Interspinous Device …
Medical Design Online (press release), PA
Falena®, a small titanium and PEEK implant inserted during minimally invasive back surgery, treats lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) providing patient pain relief. LSS is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back that can irritate the nerves that …

CM undergoes spine surgery
Times of India, India
The 84-year-old chief minister was diagnosed with lumbar stenosis, the narrowing of the spinal canal in the lumbar (lower back) area. The lumbar spine provides the base to carry the weight of the upper body and contains nerves that control the lower …
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Family sheds 13 stone in two years
Rhyl Journal, UK
Early in 2007, Wayne Sweetman, 50, had the first of two major spine operations after he was diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis. He was advised by his surgeon to lose some weight and decided to join Slimming World. He said: "Being incapable of getting …

AAEP 2008 Milne Lecture: Neurology is Not a Euphemism for Necropsy
TheHorse.com, KY
(Stenosis implies a narrowing of the vertebral canal.) This can be a developmental problem in young, light-breed horses, or it can be an acquired problem in older horses (over 10 years) from osteoarthritis of the neck vertebral articular process joints …

Medical board disciplines WNC doctors
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC
The board decision was based on expert testimony that said that Rosner's diagnosis of a patient with cervical stenosis with myelopathy, or narrowing of the spinal canal that causes dysfunction in August 2006 was not supported by the radiographic …

READERS RESPOND
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL
Mr S is a 76-year-old man with hypertension, hypertensive renal disease with cadaveric renal transplantation in 1988 and again in 1998, spinal stenosis, urinary retention due to the spinal stenosis and to benign prostatic hypertrophy treated with an …

Ann Arbor archer is in sixth decade behind bow
HollandSentinel.com, MI
“I’ve had triple bypass surgery on my carotid artery on both sides, carpal tunnel and spinal stenosis in my back, but I’m still not a bad shot,” Schleede said. In his career, Schleede has 42 kills with a bow and proudly states that he has never owned a …

High school wrestling: Hayes' career ends with painful diagnosis
News-Herald.com, OH
By John Kampf A first-team All-Ohioan in football this past fall and a two-time state wrestling tournament qualifier for Mayfield, Hayes was diagnosed with Cervical Spinal Stenosis, a neck injury, on Wednesday at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. …

Histologic Evaluation of High Speed Burr Shavings Collected During …
Ortho SuperSite, NJ
After Institutional Review Board approval, 10 patients scheduled to undergo lumbar spinal decompression for spinal stenosis were recruited for the present study. Laminectomies were performed by burring troughs bilaterally and longitudinally along the …

Healer says he cures all for the saints
Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam
Trai’s neighbor Tran C., who introduces himself as a Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) from Canada, says several hospitals in Canada have been unable to rid him from the sharp, stabbing back pains he gets as a result of spinal stenosis. …