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KMID : 0361619730080010011
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Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1973 Volume.8 No. 1 p.11 ~ p.18
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Clinical Study on Fasciotomy of Discogenic Pain of Low back
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Abstract
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A discogenic pain of low back is very important condition in orthopaedie field and the clinical study of it´s proper care is also very interesting problem.
The author has analysed in clinically about the 20 cases of the discogenic pain of low back who has hospitalized or visit to out clinic of orthopaedic surgery in Woo Sok Hospital, Korea University, since last 2 years from July 1970 to Aug. 1972, and the result of the clinical analysis is presented in this paper.
1) 13 cases out of 20 were male and 7 cases were female, which their average age was 48 years old.
2) 85% of those patients revealed their discogenic disease at the level of L4 disc.
3) Most of the clinical causes of the discogenic pain of low back were disc degeneration.
4) All of those patients complained their sciatic pain.
5) The choice of treatment were a fasciotomy of paravertebral muscles and the fascia lata. The results of fasciotomy treatment were as following 13 cases were excellent, 6 cases improved, and I case unchanged condition.
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