Rehabilitation Sciences 3060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Facet Joint, Cauda Equina, Spinal Stenosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
• Course: Rehabilitation Sciences 3060A/B
• Professor: Bert Chesworth

Document Summary

High life time prevalence 75-80% of the people experience an episode of lower back pain in their life; half of youth (before 15 years of age) experience episode of lower back pain. Resolution: 90% resolve without treatment in 6-12 weeks, while 50% of the cases are resolved within a week. Recurrence: 80% of the cases with acute lower back pain have a recurring lower back pain in less than a year. Chronically disabled people correlate with the high economic impact by relatively small proportion (only costs a few people that causes a high economic impact) Interior vertebral joint: 3 joint complex: movement or structural change of one anterior disc affects the others. A zygapophyseal joint (posterior) is a joint between the superior articular process and the inferior articular process zygapophysial joints function to protect the motion segment from anterior shear forces, excessive rotation and flexion. Because of proximity, these i(cid:373)posi(cid:374)g stru(cid:272)tures (cid:373)ay (cid:862)(cid:271)u(cid:373)p i(cid:374)to(cid:863) the (cid:374)erve root.