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| Surgical procedure to sever nerve roots in the spinal cord. |
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| What does a Rhizotomy relieve? |
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| What does a facet rhizotomy do? |
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| It is for spinal joint pain and may provide lasting low back pain relief |
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| What exactly does a facet rhizotomy disable? |
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| It disables the sensory nerve at the facet joint |
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| Why else could a rhizotomy be performed for? |
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| Patients with spasticity that is insufficiently responsive to oral medications or injectable therapies. |
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| Who is the most likely to receive this procedure? |
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| Children with cerebal palsy |
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| Why is this procedure most commonly performed? |
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| It is performed for those patients with lower extremity spasticity that interferes with walking. |
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| What is the rubber pad used for? |
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| To isolate the nerve roots |
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| What is used for pain relief? |
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| What might surgeons use to sever the nerves? |
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| They may use laser or electrosurgical probe |
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| Where is the incision made for a Rhizotomy? |
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| a 1 to 2 inch incision is made over L1 |
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| What is performed to gain access to the spinal cord and spinal nerve? |
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| What nerve roots are placed on the top of the rubber pad? |
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| What nerve roots are placed on the bottom of the rubber pad and why? |
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| The motor nerve roots and they are placed there for their protection |
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| How many rootlets are the sensory nerves divided into? |
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| They are divided into three to five rootlets. |
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| What type of recording is used to test the rootlets? |
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| How do you rate the severity of damage? |
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| from 1 - 4, with the later being the most severe. |
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| What are done with severely abnormal rootlets? |
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| They are severed, and the procedure is repeated between spinal nerves L2 and S2 |
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| What is closed at the end of the procedure? |
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| What are some complications of a Rhizotomy? |
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| Permanent paralysis of the legs and bladder, impotence, sensory loss and/or numbness, wound infection, meningitis, and leakage of spinal fluid through the wound. |
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