What's the difference between postzygapophysis and zygapophysis?
Postzygapophysis
Definition:
(n.) A posterior zygapophysis.
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Zygapophysis
Definition:
(n.) One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra.
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(1) Seven out of ten consecutive patients presenting with suspected cervical headache were found to suffer pain mediated by the third occipital nerve and stemming from a C2-3 zygapophysial joint.
(2) None of the five patients with asymptomatic joints was misdiagnosed as having symptomatic zygapophysial joints.
(3) Thus, manual diagnosis by a trained manipulative therapist can be as accurate as can radiologically-controlled diagnostic blocks in the diagnosis of cervical zygapophysial syndromes.
(4) The ability of a manipulative therapist to diagnose symptomatic cervical zygapophysial joint syndromes accurately was evaluated in a series of 20 patients.
(5) Occult injury to cervical intervertebral discs, vertebral end plates and cervical zygapophysial joints may be responsible for "whiplash" symptoms in some who are involved in motor vehicle accidents.
(6) One of the putative causes of headache is osteoarthritis of the C2-3 zygapophysial joint.
(7) It was shown that some intervertebral joints do exhibit an increased ability to rotate when in some degree of sub-maximal flexion dependent on the morphology of the zygapophysial joints.
(8) Rotational ability was shown, in general, to be increased in a flexed posture, presumed to be due to an opening of the lumbar zygapophysial joints.
(9) A report of a case of haematogenous infection of a lumbar zygapophysial joint.
(10) In full flexion axial rotation is limited, most probably by tightening of the posterior ligaments and zygapophysial joint capsules.
(11) Further, when zygapophysis structure is used to define vertebral type, rather than presence or absence of rib facets, there is a substantial change in thoracic and lumbar averages that may be important from a functional (locomotion) standpoint.
(12) The manipulative therapist identified correctly all 15 patients with proven symptomatic zygapophysial joints, and specified correctly the segmental level of the symptomatic joint.
(13) Diagnostic cervical medial branch blocks and zygapophysial joint blocks were used to test the hypothesis that the cervical zygapophyseal joints can be the source of pain in patients with idiopathic neck pain.
(14) Five linear and 2 angular measurements on each of C3 to T1 in a sample of 67 human skeletons were used to examine 3 hypotheses about the function of uncinate processes and zygapophysial joints in the cervical vertebral column.
(15) The high yield of positive responders in this study probably reflects the propensity of patients with zygapophysial joint syndromes to gravitate to a pain clinic when this condition is not recognised in conventional clinical practice.