| 1. | Any peripheral nerve or nerve root can be damaged, called a mononeuropathy.
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| 2. | The injection Ripken received on Monday was directly into the nerve root.
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| 3. | _Signs in a physical examination that the nerve root is being pinched.
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| 4. | It is most often seen around the L5 and S1 nerve roots.
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| 5. | Often on a single nerve root, the cause is a herniated intervertebral disc.
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| 6. | Nerve roots merge into 31 bilaterally symmetric pairs of spinal nerves.
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| 7. | Less commonly ectasia of the sacral nerve root sheaths may occur.
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| 8. | Hakelius reported a 3 % incidence of serious nerve root damage.
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| 9. | This increases the stretching of the nerve root and dura.
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| 10. | Through a postural assessment the nerve root that is causing the problem is identified.
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