Yoga Instructors have perfect Spines on MRI
Yoga provides a healthy spinal structure- MRI proof in European Spine Journal A group of researchers recruited a two groups of people who had no spinal problems reported at all and divided them into two matched groups. One group were yoga instructors and the other group were people of the same age, gender and other […]
Cauda Equina Syndrome and Me
Claire Thornber from ihavecaudaequina.com writes about her experience when she developed cauda equina syndrome (CES), a rare but devastating complication of lumbar disc herniation. My story really begins where you find me today, typing up my cauda equina syndrome (CES) journey to put on this site, hoping that it will become a small part in what the CESA […]
Underactive bladder syndrome
First of all, we should get some of the medical jargon explained. “Cauda equina” relates to the nerves in the spine which travel independently to the spinal cord. The spinal cord is one solid structure, with billions of individual nerve fibres making up the structure. The spinal cord has different zones which carry information relating […]
Thou cold sciatica, cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt as lamely as their manners
Rosie Jones, Osteopath at Swansea Body Kinetics, Swansea, describes the painful symptoms of sciatica and what osteopathy has to offer As you can see, Shakespeare wasn’t amused by sciatica in the slightest. Sciatica is a condition referring to the pain experienced from the entrapment of a nerve root (the nerve as it exits the spine) in […]
Does waiting for surgery affect the success of the operation?
A group from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth looked at the association between 109 discectomy operation and the duration of symptoms before the surgery. They wanted to know whether people with a shorter duration of symptoms tended to have a more successful outcome from surgery. The study showed that, statistically, it probably does not make any […]