The ribs: These flat bones form a protective shield around your internal organs. There are 24 ribs, 12 on each side of your body. They come in three different types. From the top, the first seven sets of ribs aretrue ribs. They connect in the back to the spine and connect in the f...
With long-haul flights a big part of my work, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to overcome jet lag, and beat it at its own game. Some travel writers said that they barely notice changes to their circadian rhythm, and that long-term travel leads to more of the same. But my own b...
Intrathecal.For this type of chemotherapy, your doctor uses a needle or long-term catheter and port to inject medicine into the cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid surrounds your spinal cord and brain.Intrathecal chemotherapyis a good option for some brain cancers. ...
it's a similar thing. In some instances, this bulge may turn into a leak, with the fluid leaking from within the disc. In both these conditions you will often experience referred symptoms into your legs, this is the disc pressing on, and irritating, the sciatic nerve of the lower back....
A team of surgeons in the U.K. just used Apple’s $3,500 headset to assist with actual spinal surgery. Yes, really. Now, before we get ahead of ourselves — I don’t mean the actual surgeons themselves had Vision Pro headsets strapped to their faces during the procedure. Ins...
A Winter of Extremes: Post Puncture Dural Headache, to Spinal CSF Leak — and Everything in Between The lumbar puncture (or spinal tap, since many people use that term instead) led to a debilitating condition calleda cerebrospinal fluid leak,a spinal CSF leak. ...
traumatizing from the moment I knew my child was no longer living, all the way through the D&C, and the recovery period which reminds you every moment that your body is eliminating a pregnancy. Some women’s breasts even leak the milk they had been developing for their child in these days...