Glossary - Understandable Definitions of Medical Terms
The Spine-health Medical Glossary provides accurate, easy-to-understand definitions for common (and not-so-common) terms related to chronic pain, spine surgery, back pain, and more. Click on a letter to get started.
Glossary Term
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Collagen
- Comminuted Fracture
- Congenital Disorder
- Conservative Treatment
- Cordotomy
- Corpectomy
- Cortical Bone
- Costovertebral Junction
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Decompression Surgery
- Decompression Therapy
- Degeneration
- Demineralized Bone
- Dermatome
- Discectomy
- Discogenic Pain
- Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) Scan
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Endorphins
- Endoscope
- Epidural Space
- Erector Spinae
- Facet Joints
- Fibrosis
- Fibrositis
- Flexion
- Foramen
- Graft Displacement
- Halo
- Harrington Rod
- Hydroxyapatite
- Hyperkyphosis
- Hyperlordosis
- Hypertrophic Facet Disease
- Iliac Bone
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