Word: sciatica
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...oldest Radcliffe alumnae, Mary R. McCarthy '12, will not be able to march today because she has sciatica, Lydia Lake, coordinator of Radcliffe reunions, said yesterday...
...these ails, the quest for help may be as exasperating as the pain itself. Too often, each specialist who is consulted has a different explanation of what is wrong and, more vexing, a different way of setting it right. For example, some doctors still speak of lumbago and sciatica. But these are notoriously imprecise terms for generalized pain in the lower back or neighboring areas that may be the consequence of various difficulties. Says Murray Goldstein, deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke: "All treatments are controversial, and the reason is an almost complete...
...courage to call on us. He is now serving an 8 year jail sentence. We also met Kim Dae Jung, who received 46 per cent of the vote in 1971 when Korea last held a popular election. His first words to me were, "I am suffering from a sciatica brought on by an auto collision that I do not think was accidental, and from an anxiety neurosis." I said that was hardly surprising. Exactly one year before he had been kidnapped by the Korean CIA from a Tokyo hotel, and kept blind-folded and drugged until he finally came...
Clothing manufacturers and automobile designers are unwittingly responsible for a malady that Dr. Nathaniel Gould of Brockton, Mass., calls "back-pocket sciatica." Gould, who described the disorder in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, first became aware of it when a colleague who made a large number of house calls complained that he suffered from leg pains while sitting in the confining bucket seat of his sports car. Gould could find no obvious cause of the discomfort but noticed that the doctor carried a bulging wallet in his hip pocket. He speculated that the wallet might...
Encouraging Effects. Doctors have found that the treatment works best on young patients with badly herniated discs and severe sciatica that has not responded to traditional treatment. They warn that chymopapain produces severe allergic reactions in about 1% of the patients and therefore must be administered under general anaesthetic at a hospital, where doctors can deal promptly with any adverse reaction...