Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from behind and "recklessly or negligently let both forearms down with considerable force on [Gould's] neck and left shoulder, driving [Gould's] left elbow against the arm of the chair in which he was sitting." Last week, charging that injuries to his neck, shoulder and spinal disks had cost him $25,000 in doctor bills and missed concert fees, delicate Pianist Gould filed a $300,000 damage suit against Steinway for failing to curb Bill Hupfer's high-powered amiability...
Your article "Spines of Steel" was of great interest to me, since it was just three months ago that I had a full body cast removed, which I had worn following two spinal fusions (ten vertebrae) 10½ months before...
...would like to point out that the method of spinal fusion and wearing of the body cast is not as frightening as your article would have it sound. I missed very little school, participated in the usual social activities, including dancing, of any seventh grader...
...preferable to their cures. A case in point is scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine that occurs in childhood. As seen from behind, the spine should appear straight; in scoliosis it has a C-shaped or S-shaped curve. Extreme cases of scoliosis often require fusion of the spinal vertebrae. For most cases the standard treatment is forcible straightening of the spine, with the patient encased for four to six months in a massive, immobilizing plaster cast. To some parents of scoliosis victims, this treatment seems so punishing that they cannot be persuaded to permit it even to save...
Last week Houston Surgeon Paul Harrington was winning converts to a new and happier method. Capable of correcting spinal curvature in people up to the age of 40, Dr. Harrington's technique frees patients from the confines of a cast, permits them to lead normal lives during treatment. Key to Harrington's method is a slender, stainless-steel rod that resembles a soda straw and serves somewhat like a splint. In a complicated, two-hour operation, the curved spine is straightened, then bound into place with one to three rods, which are fastened to the spine with metal...