Category: L

Part of the fourth and all of the fifth lumbar spinal nerves. These nerves accompany part of the first, second, and third sacral nerves to form the sciatic nerve.  

Trigger points that are not symptomatic when the involved muscle is at rest, but produce pain during palpation. Range of motion and strength may also be limited.  

The triangle bounded in front by the obliquus abdominis extemus, above by the lower border of the serratus posterior inferior and the point of the 12th rib, behind by the outer edge of the erector spinae, and below by the obliquus abdominis internus.  

Traction applied to the lumbar spine usually by applying a force to pull on the pelvis or by using a mobilization technique to distract individual joints of the lumbar vertebrae.  

A rare injury in which the lung rotates around its pedicle, typically after violent trauma to the chest. The injured lung can usually only be repaired with immediate surgery.  

Aggregates of lymphatic tissue found in the spleen and lymph nodes.  

An approach to understanding how learning comes about by applying certain laws of learning; learning represents a change in behavior that has come about as a result of practice, education, and experience.  

Tetany that requires me chanical or electrical stimulation of nerves to show characteristic signs of excitability; the opposition of manifest tetany.  

Tetanus marked by spasticity of a group of muscles near the wound. Trismus, tonic contraction of jaw muscles, is usually absent.  

A plug made of Laminaria digitata that is placed in the cervical canal of the uterus to dilate it.