Dr Mark Laslett

07/03/2025

07/03/2025

Here is a little video promoting an excellent quality model of the the L4/5 segment that shows the close relationships between the anterior and posterior columns, the cauda equina, the spinal nerves and ganglia, the facet joints and other structures. Exemplar annular fissures that can allow protrusion and extrusion of intradiscal content is also built in to the model. beautiful, anatomically accurate modelling for use in education of patients, clinicians and student. Get your own from Jerome Fryer of Dynamic Disc Designs: www.dynamicdiscdesigns.com

31/12/2024

Here's the latest paper published: "Anaesthetic and corticosteroid response immediately following epidural injection in patients witth MRI confirmed lumbar disc herniation"
Abstract
Objectives: To describe a rapid, community-based assessment, referral and management system for acute symptomatic LDH. To identify and describe specific local
anaesthetic and corticosteroid patterns of pain intensity change during the first week post-epidural injection.
Setting: Private practice, specialist physiotherapy clinic, community-based radiology facility.
Design: Cohort study.
Method: Consecutive patients with clinical and MRI diagnosis of acute LDH causing radicular pain and/or radiculopathy were referred for lumbar epidural injection.
Pre- and post-procedure measures of back, buttock and lower limb pain intensity were acquired at 1,2,4,6 h, and at 1 week. Analysis of changes in back, buttock and
lower limb pain intensity to identify different patterns that may influence clinical management.
Results: A detailed clinical assessment, MRI and epidural steroid injection was completed for 51 patients. Pain intensity change patterns were highly heterogeneous.
Three broadly different pain intensity response patterns: “Steroid Responsive” (41%), “Mechanical” (37%) and Unconfirmed Diagnosis (22%), were identified.
Psychosocial factors did not influence tendency of patients to follow one clinical pathway versus another.
Conclusions: Radicular pain associated with LDH responds to epidural injection in patterns that may be described as “steroid responsive” or “mechanical”. LDH is not
confirmed as the cause of pain in the remainder. Immediate post procedure anaesthetic and one week corticosteroid responses can guide management pathway and
identify a subgroup requiring further diagnostic workup.

24/09/2024

This is 15 minutes of Gold. This speech by President Javier Milieu of Argentina is worth repeating and distributing widely:

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18/09/2024

Hello Colleagues who see back pain patients! My book is now in English language paperback, and the Spanish translation will be available soon as an e-book and in paperback!

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12/08/2024

I am working on another e-book which has a working title of "The Science of Diagnostics for Muculoskeletal Clinicians". This book is growing out of the instructional material of my online course:

Dr Mark Laslett's course teaches the basics of diagnostic accuracy. Learn how to create 2X2 tables from data & calculate diagnostic accuracy values. See how the sequence of pattern recognition, SpPIn, Diagnosis by Subtraction is used clinically and how this informs management & further diagnostic wo...

11/08/2024

From all I have read, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is genetically male (XY) despite having female genetalia and being raised as female. The advantages over XX females are significant and result in serious risk of injury to his/her XX opponents. The obvious solution is to exclude these rare variations on the human genome from XX female sports at top levels including the Olympics. This may seem cruel to Imane Khelef, but the safety of the great majority of XX women athletes takes precedence I believe.

09/08/2024

I am aware that people from Egypt who want to purchase my Kindle book, are have some difficulties with getting access from Amazon. I don't know why that is. To give people another option, I have negotiated with the Physio Academy - Learning, and it is now available from their Website here: https://learning.physioacademy.courses/products/digital_downloads/Back-Pain-Diagnosis-and-Management-Beyond-Guidelines
We are still working out some technical difficulties, so please be patient. We are new to selling e-books!
A soft cover physical book should be available from Amazon soon as well.
Once these issues are resolve, it is planned to duplicate the sale of the book in different languages. First will be Spanish..😀

19/07/2024

My New Kindle E-Book is now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1HRRJ5

18/07/2024

This 1 hour webcast reposted July 2024

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jCRiqqD6Zzkf5kkrip01P?si=Fylve2RORPar1rTaMV6BZw
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-144-re-airing-ep-27-lumbopelvic-spine-diagnosis/id1510866421?i=1000662625046
Youtube: https://youtu.be/6LpLFhKUVH8?si=96SjLntjD2uXrKCK
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pt-pro-talk/?viewAsMember=true
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ptprotalk/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/MariHannaParks

Physical Therapist in the US and Brazil, host of PT Pro Talk Podcast, and owner of VIRT Physical Therapy. Sharing and spreading knowledge.

20/04/2023

Here's free access to my (slightly modifiied) keynote lecture at the 5th OMT conference in Cairo February 24 2023.

FREE | Access 12: Months | Is this the end for ‘non-specific low back pain’? Find out why it should be considered a ‘failed experiment’. Find out how we can do better for many patients with a specific diagnosis of LBP.