So… this sent me down a little rabbit hole. I just want to advise you all, fellow lemmings, to be good to your back from here on out.
As the annulus weakens, at some point you may lift something or bend in such a way that you cause too much pressure across the disc. The weakened disc ruptures while you are doing something that five years earlier would not have caused a problem. Such is the aging process of the spine.
Also the surgeries often have to be done from the front, so doctors have to put organs out of the way, operate the spine, put everything back. It’s really scary. Everytime I think of it I start sitting a little more upright.
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I just sent this to someone with hefty spine troubles.
I hope they don’t risk a disk when they laugh about this wonderfully dumb shit.
The spondylolisthesis (listhesis) one isn’t quite accurate - it should be the whole spine above the joint in question shifted forward. You don’t really see just one vertebral body sticking out like that.
Are these Merengadas?
My back hurts just looking at this. Herniated a disk a while back and I don’t wish that pain on my worst enemy.
Not even Hitler?
I’m hungry now. Does that make me a cannibal?
“Spine” being the most abnormal to have.
How would one represent a bulging disc
Hernia, but a little baby bump. My doctor describes it like having a tack in your back and I like that metaphor.
Schmorl’s node is hiding in plain site
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