back pain

Question 1

where it may be felt

Answer 1

neck
middle back
lower back
tailbone

Question 2

emergencies

Answer 2

traumatic fracture
cauda equina syndroe
acute food drop
acute cord cokmpressio
spinal infection

Question 3

cauda equina syndrome

Answer 3

dysfunction of multiple lumbar and sacral nerve roots
- urinary or faecal incontinece

Question 4

intervention for cauda equina syndrome

Answer 4

urgen MRI

Question 5

acute foot drop

Answer 5

weakness of ankle dorsiflexion
inability to lift front part of foot off the ground

Question 6

acute cord compresion

Answer 6

rapid onset spinal pain, weakness and numbness

Question 7

scoliosis

Answer 7

spinal deformity with sideways or coronal curve

Question 8

kyphosis

Answer 8

spinal deformity with excessice convex curvature of the spine
forward rounding of the upper back
normal spine is kyphosed

Question 9

spondylolisthesis

Answer 9

one of the vertebra slips fowards

Question 10

surgical interventions

Answer 10

4ds
neurological deficit
destrucitve process; cancer
deformity
disabling pain