Low Back Pain

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to female nurse from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; traumatic radiculitis; and lumbar backache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians first examined in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica probably due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; low lumbar lumbago; and compression neuritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, black-and-white photographs and charts relating to male sailor from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: spondylolisthesis; sciatica; lumbar backache; and prolapsed intervertebral disc. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male steel worker from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 34 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc in lumbosacral region; and lower lumbar pain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male cleaner from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: lumbago and sciatica syndrome due to prolapsed intervertebral disc. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male pensioner from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: lumbago and left sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; "neurotic individual"; and hysteria. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes relating to female nurse from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: mild "disc" syndrome; and lumbosacral pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 22 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: attacks of lumbago and sciatic pain due to prolapsed intervertebral disc. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male pensioner from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: lumbago due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; osteitis of vertebrae; and wound infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 39 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: lumbar pain and left sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.