Curve that corrects completely when the patient bends toward the convexity of the curve.
What is a compensatory curve?
Large tooth like bone in the cervical spine
What is the dens or odontoid process?
In a sheep study IdentiTi demonstrated X times faster bone growth vs.
What is 2x faster bone growth?
Who defined the TLIF procedure?
Who is Dr. Harms?
What is the L5 nerve root and what is a spondylolysis?
Name this common surgical instrument
What is a Leksell rongeur?
The combination of these screws can protect the S1 screw from failure and increase the rate of fusion
What are iliac and S1 screws/fixation?
Muscle groups innervated by a single spinal nerve level
What are myotomes?
SafeOp monitors SSEPs by stimulating ____ and recording ____
What are "stimulate distally and records proximally?"
The first spinal surgery ever performed
What is a laminectomy?
Name the film, view and type of vertebral body
What is an axial CT of a lumbar vertebral body?
relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment vs relating to or denoting any disease or condition which arises spontaneously or the cause is unknown
What is iatrogenic vs. idiopathic?
This technique rotates the entire apex at once while applying counter torque in upper and lower levels.
What is en bloc derotation?
The 7 ligaments common to all spinal areas
What are ALL, PLL, Ligamentum flavum, supraspinous, interspinous, intertransverse and facet capsular ligaments?
Trajectory of standalone ALIF screw
What is 40 degrees?
This classification system has become the gold standard for sagittal alignment in adult spinal deformity
What is the Schwab classification system?
Define the imaging test and what it tests for
What is a myelography or myelogram that detects and diagnoses spinal disorders that cause myelopathy—or, spinal cord compression?
Drew the first accurate description and illustration of the human spine
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
An abnormal curvature of the spine that bends to the right. This is a form of scoliosis in which the curve bends away from the heart.
What is dextroscoliosis?
Network of nerves located on the posterior pelvic wall
What is the sacral plexus also known as the lumbosacral plexus?
Diameter of the Identiti C standalone screws
What are 3.5mm and 4.0mm screw diameters?
A form of decompression therapy that relieves pressure on the spine can be traced by to almost 3500 B.C
What is Spinal Traction?
What is Sacral Iliac Joint and Ilium?
Define the red area and procedure that uses it as a guide for access
What is Kambins triangle and TLIF?
This inexpensive, low-profile and effective segmental fixation method is particularly apt for neuromuscular scoliosis since it provides load distribution in osteoporotic bone.
What is the Luque wire technique or sublaminar banding?
Small ___ in the ___ in the cervical spine provide a passageway for ____ to carry blood to the ____
What is... Small foramina in the transverse processes in the cervical spine provide a passageway for arteries to carry blood to the brain?
This product contains all 3 essential components of bone remodeling
What is AlphaGraft Cellular Bone Matrix?
What is an ALIF with Centinel Spines interfixated device?
Define the film, levels of stabilization, and the fixation system used.
What are radiographs, L4-S1 and Medtronic PEEK Rod System?
Scoliosis is derived from the Greek word meaning
What is crooked?
spell it
What is Scheuermann's kyphosis?
The longest nerve in the body
What is the saphenous nerve?
Invictus TL + OCT is cleared for use with this computer assisted image guidance system when paired as this screw system
What are Medtronics Stealth OARM and Solera?
A versatile and side loading modular hook-and-screw system for translation (reducing the spine to the rod) correction emerged in the 1990s (name and company)
What was USS universal spine system and who is Depuy Synthes?
Define this system
What is the Luque trolley growing rod technique?
The 3 static tests and 1 fatigue test included in ASTM F1717
What are static compression bending, tension bending and torsion? What is a compression bending fatigue test?
Fusing a patient who is skeletally immature can result in this phenomenon
What is the Crankshaft phenomenon?
a progressive rotational and angular spinal deformity that can occur after posterior spinal surgery, has been reported in pediatric patients with idiopathic, congenital, and neuromuscular scoliosis.
Weight bearing bone of the hip
What is the acetabular sourcil?
Number of patient scans EOS can complete in 1 day
What are 150 scans?
British surgeon and scientist pioneered antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine
Who is Dr. Joseph Lister?
Define the anomaly and what it causes
What is a hemi vertebral body and congenital scoliosis?
The slang term for needle nose pliers
What is "big black?"