Spine

Question 1

What is a radiculopathy?

Answer 1

Conduction block in axons of spinal nerves or their roots

Question 2

What does radiculopathy cause?

Answer 2

• Neurological loss - Radicular pain

Question 3

What is radicular pain?

Answer 3

Pain deriving from damage or irritation of the spinal nerve tissue, particularly the dorsal root ganglion

Question 4

What can cause radiculopathy?

Answer 4

• Intervertebral Disc Prolapse - Rupture of annulus fibrosis and sequestration of the nucleus pulposus (most commonly lumbar) - Degenerative diseases of the spine - spinal canal stenosis (most commonly cervical spine)

Question 5

Which direction do discs most commonly prolapse?

Answer 5

Posterolateral