tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Pain patterns and descriptions in patients with radicular pain: Does the pain necessarily follow a specific dermatome"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Pain patterns and descriptions in patients with radicular pain: Does the pain necessarily follow a specific dermatome? | Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMed Central Open Access Pain patterns and descriptions in patients with radicular pain Does the pain necessarily follow a specific dermatome Donald R Murphy 1 2 3 Eric L Hurwitz4 Jonathan K Gerrard5 and Ronald Clary6 Address 1Rhode Island Spine Center 600 Pawtucket Ave Pawtucket RI 02860-6059 USA 2Department of Community Health Alpert Medical School of Brown University Box G-A Providence RI 02912 USA 3Department of Research New York Chiropractic College 2360 State Route 89 Seneca Falls New York 13148 USA 4Department of Public Health Sciences John A. Burns School of Medicine University of Hawaii Manoa Hawaii 96822 USA 5Aquarius Chiropractic 210 - 179 Davie Street Vancouver V6Z 2Y1 Canada and 6Private Practice of Chiropractic Medicine 621 Smith Street Providence RI 02908 USA Email Donald R Murphy - rispine@ Eric L Hurwitz - ehurwitz@ Jonathan K Gerrard - kineticjon@ Ronald Clary - reclary@ Corresponding author Published 21 September 2009 Received 2 May 2009 A. . A . A I A Accepted 21 September 2009 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2009 17 9 doi l746-l340-l7-9 This article is available from http content l7 l 9 2009 Murphy et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background It is commonly stated that nerve root pain should be expected to follow a specific dermatome and that this information is useful to make the diagnosis of radiculopathy. There is little evidence in the literature that confirms or denies this statement. The purpose of this study is to describe and discuss the diagnostic utility of the distribution of pain in patients with cervical and lumbar radicular pain. Methods Pain drawings and descriptions were .