lumbar pathology
This condition describes a defect or stress fracture in the pars interarticularis of the vertebral arch.
What is Spondylolysis?
This imaging modality is considered the gold standard for diagnosing a herniated nucleus pulposus or a spinal infection.
What is MRI?
Which test requires placing pressure on the painful segment and see if the pain resolves with an active back contraction
What is Prone Instability Test
What condition is associated with the following presentation: Pain, burning, tired feeling in extremities and buttock during walking
What is vascular claudication?
What is a surgery that removes a herniated or bulged disc portion in the lumbar spine?
What is Microdiscetomy
This term refers to the forward displacement of one vertebra over the one below it
What is spondylolithesis?
These are the primary imaging tools used to rule out fractures or detect degenerative joint disease (DJD)
Radiographs (X-rays).
The four tests in Laslett's Cluster
What is:
Distraction
Thigh Thrust
Compression
Sacral Thrust
A delivery driver presents with acute LBP radiating to the left buttock and posterior thigh; symptoms centralize during repeated prone press-up exercises
What is low back pain with referred LE pain?
What is a surgery involving a decompression of the spine by removing the lamina of the lumbar spine?
What is Lumbar laminectomy
A chronic inflammatory disease characterized by morning stiffness and back pain that improves with exercise.
What is ankylosing spondylitis?
This imaging method is 100% sensitive and specific for detecting an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.
What is Ultrasound?
This neurodynamic test is highly sensitive for detecting sciatic nerve tension and is performed with the patient supine.
What is Straight Leg Raise (SLR).
This psychological "yellow flag" involves a patient dwelling on the worst possible outcomes and is measured by a score of 30 or greater on its namesake unidimensional tool
What is Pain catastrophizing?
What is a surgery involving the bridging and stabilizing two vertebrae to reduce painful motion?
What is Lumbar spinal fusion?
This "red flag" pathology involves a space-occupying lesion in the spinal canal that can cause saddle anesthesia and bladder dysfunction
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Radiographs for this specific inflammatory condition may eventually reveal a "bamboo spine" appearance due to ligamentous calcification.
Sitting test is often more sensitive than the SLR for identifying lower extremity neurodynamic irritability.
What is Slump Test?
This specific condition presents with low back and buttock pain that is exacerbated by lumbar extension and relieved by trunk flexion, often accompanied by a temporary resolution of symptoms when leaning forward on a shopping cart.
What is spinal stenosis?
What is a surgery involving placing cement to strengthen the vertebrae after fracture/collapse?
What is vertebroplasty?
What is a condition characterized by a failure of disks, ligaments, and/or joints to limit the motion of the lumbar spine and results in aberrant motions with possible catching?
What is segmental hypermobility?
Gold standard to view for spondylosis?
What is MRI?
Progression of SLR raise
What is:
SLR, DF, Hip IR, Adduction, Inversion
55-year-old woman reports diffuse aching in the pelvis, hips, and upper back for over a year, along with fatigue and hypersensitivity to light touch
What is Low Back Pain with Related Generalized Pain?
What surgery involves enlarging the foramen to prevent disk bulging or joint thickening from compressing nerves?
What is Foraminectomy?