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J C IVINS. 1951-12-05. Backache.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14892092/
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Chronic monotone back pain is no pressing indication for radiographic procedures, but chronic progressive or symptomatic back pain should be investigated by radiographic means. Beneath conventional radiology and computed tomography (CT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a more method of standard in these cases. The radiographic investigation of back pain is shown in cases of discal and vertebral degeneration and spondylitis. Typical signs and differential diagnosis are demonstrated. After demonstration of radiological means. After introduction and valuation of radiological means, as conventional radiography, CT, MRI, myelography and scintigraphy, it is entered into degenerative changes and degenerative diseases of vertebra endplates and vertebra bodies as a reason of pain. Reasons of spinal stenosis are discussed. In case of inflammatory changes, bacterial inflammation of vertebrae and intervertebral joints are represented. Changes of spondylodiscitis/spondylitis are opposed to inflammatory changes of Morbus Bechterew and Morbus Scheuermann.
BACKGROUND: Pain therapy is not an obligatory subject of undergraduate medical education in Germany. METHODS: In order to evaluate the expectations of undergraduate medical students regarding pain therapy as a lecture, a questionnaire was distributed to students visiting a faculty lecture on pain therapy. RESULTS: The main topics voted by the students as very interesting to them were pain syndromes such as low back pain, headache, and cancer pain. Furthermore, pharmacotherapy and the structure of pain therapy units were voted as interesting. Female students were significantly more interested in pain problems of specific patient groups (women, children, older patients, HIV-infected patients). Case reports on paper or with patient presentations were regarded as the most important didactic elements of such lectures. CONCLUSIONS: An analysis of the published undergraduate curricula in pain therapy revealed that the curriculum of the IASP and of the EFIC are too long and too theoretical, respectively. The curriculum of the DGSS meets many expectations of the students in this survey. Concepts of pain therapy education in undergraduate medical schools should consider the wishes of students regarding knowledge of pain syndromes and didactic methods.
STUDY DESIGN: The author reviewed literature and reports on spine imaging, selected key articles in which novel imaging strategies were described, and prepared a review of currently developing imaging strategies in intervertebral disc degeneration. OBJECTIVES: To provide a review of imaging in intervertebral disc degeneration that covers the current methodology briefly and describes developing techniques in detail. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging provide excellent anatomic images of the spine. However, anatomic imaging of the spine does not reliably identify the source of pain in patients with intervertebral disc degeneration. Many functional imaging techniques are suited to the study of the spine. Some of these techniques will improve our understanding of intervertebral disc degeneration and clinical symptomatology. METHODS: The author selected reports in the current literature for further review and attempted to describe succinctly the material in the reports that are most relevant to spine imaging. RESULTS: New and potentially useful imaging strategies for spine imaging include dynamic computed tomography, dynamic magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion imaging, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. CONCLUSIONS: Technological advances in magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography imaging continue to offer more opportunities to investigate and diagnose back pain and intervertebral disc degeneration.