Sentence examples for damaged disk from inspiring English sources
Peak amplitude of the damaged disk is smaller than that of the intact disk.
Traditionally, there have been two approaches to this problem: remove the damaged disk or fuse together the vertebrae on either side of it, using screws with plates or rods.
It was performed by Richard Guyer of the institute's Center for Disk Replacement, and involved removing the damaged disk and lifting the collapsed disk space to normal levels.
The products at the center of the dispute were invented by Michelson to simplify basic spinal surgery, in which a damaged disk is removed and the adjacent vertebrae are fused together.
Michael et al. [ 17] found the depression of the fractured endplate altered the pressure profile of the damaged disk resulting in increased compressive loading of the anterior wall of adjacent vertebra that predisposed it to wedge fracture.
By some estimates, as many as 30,000 back operations a year are performed in the United States to remove damaged disks and fuse the spine back together to reduce a patient's lower back pain.
* For people with back pain, microsurgery to remove damaged disks in the spine can improve pain control significantly, says Dr. Michael Ferrante, director of the UCLA Pain Management Center and co-director of the UCLA Spine Center.
It may damage disks and conceivably cause the loss of one's entire CD collection.
Electronic equipment can emit magnetic fields that could damage disks or lead to a computer system crash.
"I thought it was whiplash," he said, but later learned he had damaged a disk in his neck.
