Norman Swann
speaker
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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where bone and joint degeneration causes narrowing of the spinal canal.
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Typical symptoms of spinal stenosis include pain in the buttocks and legs, made worse by walking, especially downhill, and relieved by sitting or flexing the back.
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Maggie had a spinal decompression operation in Melbourne at that time, but the convalescence was slow and the benefits didn't last long.
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But then Maggie came across a microsurgical spinal operation being done in Texas, which purported to avoid a lot of the post operative problems with pain and recovery compared to the standard what's called open laminectomy.
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Maggie was fortunate that she had the resources to consider going to San Antonio to have the operation.
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already so this is now like you've had two surgeries in the forties and fifties in this.
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That's right, and
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keeping Australian surgeons with meat on the table.
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But the thought of another one I
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Maggie Scott, who's only several months post operation.
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And you're listening to the health report here on the ABC's backbone, Radio National.
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Now I'm not selling this surgery that Maggie had, and later on I'll speak to an Australian surgeon for a local perspective, because some Australian surgeons are performing it or something like it.
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But the surgeon Maggie went to see in Texas is a pioneer of this particular technique.
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Don Hilton is associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Texas San Antonio.
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and visited Australia recently on a speaking tour.
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He told me the typical story of someone who might be a surgical candidate.
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And what you described there with the walking story is what they call spinal stenosis, narrowing of the spinal canal, which can be confused with what's called intermittent claudication where it's actually an arterial problem.
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How do you tell them apart?
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Because people can get pain in the legs when they're walking up hills and it could be because of an arterial blockage.
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So we should just describe what spinal stenosis is because there's an epidemic of it and it's a narrowing in the spinal canal but it's really caused by slippage of the spinal the vertebrae
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