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A stress test (sometimes called a torture test) of hardware is a form of deliberately intense and thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity , often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results.
A large study of spinal stenosis from Finland found the prognostic factors for ability to work after surgery were ability to work before surgery, age under 50 years, and no prior back surgery. The very long-term outcome (mean follow-up time of 12.4 years) was excellent-to-good in 68% of patients (59% women and 73% men).
Two weeks after the surgery, he was discharged from the hospital and allowed to go home. Not long after, the seizures started up again and the family was told that Caper would need a second ...
Surgery for back pain is typically used as a last resort, when serious neurological deficit is evident. [52] A 2009 systematic review of back surgery studies found that, for certain diagnoses, surgery is moderately better than other common treatments, but the benefits of surgery often decline in the long term. [73]
A problem with these muscles is often found in someone with chronic low back pain, because the back pain causes the person to use the back muscles improperly in trying to avoid the pain. [38] The problem with the multifidus muscles continues even after the pain goes away, and is probably an important reason why the pain comes back. [ 38 ]
The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses. ... the bill back to the Senate. ... long-standing goal of giving ...
On July 25, 1978, the world's first "test tube baby" was born. Louise Brown was the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and her birth eventually led to one of her doctors ...
A patient and doctor discuss congenital insensitivity to pain. For people with this disorder, cognition and sensation are otherwise normal; for instance, patients can still feel discriminative touch (though not always temperature [3]), and there are generally no detectable physical abnormalities.