Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
Norman Swann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because too much or too little surgery might be going on, or might be being performed on the wrong people.
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And thirdly, in terms of the controversy, there's new technology emerging all the time for spine surgery.
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Spine surgeons, like other subspecialist surgeons, have a tendency to invent their own instrumentation, and there are new bolts, plates, and other kits appearing on the market all the time, sometimes without sufficient safety information.
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And then there are also new operative techniques which surgeons will argue about endlessly, not to mention that there are two surgical specialties involved neurosurgery and orthopedics.
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So what's the poor consumer to think, ask or decide if he or she feels she might need an operation?
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One of the options in spinal surgery is to have a minimally invasive operation of some kind.
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And that's what Maggie Scott chose to have, but went overseas to have it done.
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Maggie is one of the pioneers of dance in Australia.
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She founded the Australian Ballet School.
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and has been a prime mover behind the Australian ballet, and many of Australia's leading dancers have been trained by her.
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But back to Maggie's back, because it started to give her major trouble early in her career.
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The old fashioned treatment.
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So you've been punishing your spine or your spine's been punishing you for a long, long time.
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For
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did that end your dancing career?
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Maggie Scott mentioned two operations you'll hear more about.
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A laminectomy refers to removing a piece of the bone surrounding the spinal canal to either widen it or relieve pressure on a bulging disc, or indeed remove the disc.
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In the olden days, the ones Maggie's talking about, a laminectomy was usually a much bigger operation than it is today, and involved removing a lot more than just this lamina bone.
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So much so that the surgery could create instability and the person ended up needing a fusion operation to hold the vertebrae together.
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Anyway, Maggie's back has never really been put right, and four or five years ago things got bad again with a condition called spinostenosis.
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