Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood is squeezed out by body weight acting on such pressure points as the base of the spine. Flesh is opened right to the bone in oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars, and insurance companies allot 25% of expenses in all spinal-cord injuries for bedsore treatment alone. Serious and persistent as it is, the bedsore problem is usually handled by a method that is decades old: sheepskin sheets that soften pressure on patients and permit air to circulate under their bodies. Today, several young doctors have rediscovered and redesigned a discarded...
...four hours Neurosurgeon Paul Pitlyk and Orthopedist Kenneth Spence worked on the prone patient's cervical spine. They cut under the spinal cord, removed the tooth-shaped projection that hooks the second vertebra into the first just below the skull, and then deliberately fractured the two vertebrae...
...white spinal cord continued to pulsate regularly, but there was no assurance that Hoi Pham would ever move her limbs again - until the surgeons gave a sharp tweak to her left leg. It kicked up smartly...
...Motives. For the surgeons, no less than for Hoi Pham, that reaction was a near miracle. For two months the child had stoically borne a pain in her neck that gradually forced her head toward her shoulder at a grotesque 30° angle. With paralysis from strangulation of her spinal column, she could no longer walk, could barely move her arms. A corpsman took Hoi Pham to Project Viet Nam civilian doctors, who have volunteered to care for civilians (TIME, May 20). With no neurosurgeon among them, they referred her to the Navy. Dr. Pitlyk found that Hoi Pham...
...Czech Communist cause by doing a little spying. "Knock off the patriotism business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered to give Mrkva and his family a free trip to Czechoslovakia, pay off Mrkva's mortgage and finance an operation on his daughter's spinal curvature. Mrkva, who had kept the FBI informed from the start, fed his Red friends such unclassified items as the State Department phone book, press releases, and previously cleared administrative reports...