Word: spined
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...favorite movie, which could cook up enough nostalgia to feed a small country for days. If you want to see a grown man cry, all you need is the aforementioned title and 107 minutes of your time—23, if you start at James Earl Jones’ spine-tingling speech...
...story, for me, is that her pain is particularly bad when she lies in bed at night. On X-rays she has a little hip arthritis (a red herring) and quite a bit more spinal stenosis - a narrowing of the passages through which the nerves go from the spine to the legs...
...treatment. I am amazed at how little Anna (and her family) actually understand about what's wrong with her though. We spend a long time discussing arthritis, stenosis and pain. The only addition I can make to her treatment is a basic explanation of the anatomy of the arthritic spine, and some really simple advice based on this; we tell patients with stenosis to try and keep the low back more rounded. Slouch a little and keep your hips flexed in bed. This keeps the nerve-passages a bit more open. It seemed to help Anna. And it seems...
...SPINE...
Activities such as cheerleading, gymnastics and football can lead to a fracture of the spine (spondylolysis)--typically at the fourth or fifth lumbar vertebra--or to spondylolisthesis, in which one vertebra slips away from its neighbor. Both cause chronic lower back pain, which is otherwise uncommon in children...