Tuesday, July 25th

Clinical Themes:

• Hyperlordosis (“swayback”), hyperkyphosis ("hunchback")

• Cervical hyperextension injury (“whiplash”)

 

 

Question of the Day:

A 57-year-old patient who has suffered from chronic low back pain secondary to osteoarthritis is treated by anesthesia of the branches of the dorsal rami of the spinal nerves supplying the lumbar facet joints. What would be the expected area of skin that might be numb? Would there be any muscular deficits?
 

 

 

Download the Plasma Presentation that played during lab: PDF  PowerPoint