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    Radiculopathy (from Latin radix 'root'; from Ancient Greek πάθος (pathos) 'suffering'), also commonly referred to as pinched nerve, refers to a set of...
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    caused by compression of a dorsal nerve root, it is considered a lumbar radiculopathy or radiculitis when accompanied by an inflammatory response. The sciatic...
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    compression of a nerve root emerging from the spinal cord may result in radiculopathy (sensory and motor disturbances, such as severe pain in the neck, shoulder...
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  • cervical radiculopathy. The Spurling test is used during a spinal or neck examination to aid in the diagnosis and assessment of cervical radiculopathy. It...
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  • a nerve due to inflammation or other irritation of the nerve root (radiculopathy) at its connection to the spinal column. A common form of radiculitis...
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    patients with cervical and lumbar spinal disorders such as cervical radiculopathy or lumbar spinal stenosis. Lumbar traction has been widely used in the...
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    spinal radiculopathy, myelopathy and claudication. When a single spinal nerve root is compressed, the resulting clinical outcome is termed radiculopathy, and...
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  • among the most common symptoms caused by damage to the nerve root. Radiculopathy is commonly called the "root". In addition to pain, nerve damage may...
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    compression. The cauda equina is vulnerable to being compressed, causing a radiculopathy. The cauda equina was named after its resemblance to a horse's tail...
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    polymorphonuclear leukocytes in CSF. Lyme radiculopathy affecting the limbs is often misdiagnosed as a radiculopathy caused by nerve root compression, such...
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    experiences sciatic pain, and more specifically pain radiating down the leg (radiculopathy), when the straight leg is at an angle of between 30 and 70 degrees...
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    with spine flexion. Minimal to zero symptoms when seated or supine. Radiculopathy (with or without radicular pain), a neurologic condition in which nerve...
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  • Differential diagnosis of PMPS includes phantom breast pain, cervical radiculopathy, pectoralis minor syndrome/neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, scapulothoracic...
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    Other conditions that are closely related include disc protrusion, radiculopathy (pinched nerve), sciatica, disc disease, disc degeneration, degenerative...
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    rare instances, a posterior limbus vertebra has been described causing radiculopathy due to nerve root compression. Alagheband, Sharzad J; Clapp, Adrianna...
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    visualize the neuroforamina of the vertebral column, showing narrowing at two levels, causing radiculopathy. The smaller images are axial plane slices....
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    brachial plexopathy Lumbosacral radiculopathy Hirayama disease Root disorders: Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral radiculopathy Spinal stenosis Arachnoiditis...
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    commonly encountered conditions treated by neurologists include headaches, radiculopathy, neuropathy, stroke, dementia, seizures and epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease...
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    emoxypine in 205 patients with clinical manifestations of lumbosacral radiculopathy (LSR). Patients were divided into two groups, and further were divided...
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  • (differential diagnoses). Some differential diagnoses include L2/L3 lumbar radiculopathy, another entrapped peripheral nerve (e.g. femoral neuropathy), lumbar...
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    demonstrable normal values and aberrations in carpal tunnel syndrome. Cervical radiculopathy can also cause paresthesia abnormal sensibility in the hands and wrist...
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    outside of cervical injury and precaution. These uses include cervical radiculopathy, sleep apnea, and patients on CPAP ventilation. Most studies for these...
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    Philip S., MD, Carmel Armon, MD, and Kerry Levin, MD. "Acute Lumbosacral Radiculopathy: Pathophysiology.Clinical, Features, and Diagnosis." www.uptodate.com...
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  • Lymphocytic meningoradiculitis, also known as Bannwarth syndrome, is a neurological disease characterized as intense nerve pain radiating from the spine...
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  • Compression neuropathy, entrapment of a nerve in the arm or leg Compressive radiculopathy, entrapment of a nerve root in the spine (in the neck or back), often...
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  • Bakody's test, is a medical maneuver used to evaluate for cervical radiculopathy. Specifically, this test is used to evaluate for nerve root compression...
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    surrounding the median nerve is visible.) Specialty Neurology, Plastic surgery Differential diagnosis Peripheral neuropathy, Radiculopathy, Plexopathy...
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    Cubital tunnel Nerve compression syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome Cervical radiculopathy Aguiar, Paulo Henrique; Bor-Seng-Shu, Edson; Gomes-Pinto, Fernando;...
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  • disorder Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Cauda equina syndrome Lumbar radiculopathy Holmes-Adie syndrome Idiopathic Trauma Concussion, spinal cord Hypothermia...
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  • medical community, specifically aiding in the diagnoses of neuropathy, radiculopathy, and axonopathy. As to more recent use, electromyoneurography has been...
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