Referred Pain

The Cloward Sign…Cervical Referral Patterns

Ralph Bingham Cloward was an American Neurosurgeon born September 24th 1908 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Western Neurosurgical Society for 40 years and the President in 1975. “Like many contributors to medicine, the [interbody fusion] technique was developed as a wartime necessity. Dr. Cloward was the only neurosurgeon in […]

THE CLOWARD SIGN…CERVICAL REFERRAL PATTERNS

Ralph Bingham Cloward was an American Neurosurgeon born September 24th 1908 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Western Neurosurgical Society for 40 years and the President in 1975. “Like many contributors to medicine, the [interbody fusion] technique was developed as a wartime necessity. Dr. Cloward was the only neurosurgeon in […]

Isolated thigh pain in myocardial infarction

Am J Emerg Med. 2013 Jun;31(6):998.e1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.02.002. Epub 2013 Mar 6. Isolated thigh pain in myocardial infarction. Senthilkumaran S, Meenakshisundaram R, Michaels AD, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian P. Abstract The referred pain of angina to upper half of the body is well known. However, isolated pain in the thigh as a presenting symptom in myocardial infarction is […]

Multivariable analysis of the relationship between pain referral patterns and the source of chronic low back pain

Review article Laplante BL, et al. Citation Pain Physician. 2012 Mar-Apr;15(2):171-8. Abstract BACKGROUND: Discogenic, facet joint, and sacroiliac joint mediated axial low back pain may be associated with overlapping pain referral patterns into the lower limb. Differences between pain referral patterns for these three structures have not been systematically investigated. OBJECTIVE: To examine the individual […]

Hip Joint Pain Referral Patterns: A Descriptive Study

John M. Lesher, MD, MPH, Paul Dreyfuss, MD, Nelson Hager, MD, Michael Kaplan, MD, Michael Furman, MD Pain Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 22–25, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-4637.2006.00153.x Published: 23 July 2007 ABSTRACT Objective. To determine hip joint pain referral patterns. Design. Retrospective analysis. Setting. Multicenter. Patients. Fifty-one consecutive patients meeting clinical criteria of a symptomatic hip joint. Interventions. Fluoroscopically […]