Mahdi Bassi

Our guest graduated from Quraysh Secondary School in Jeddah and joined the College of Medicine, King Saud University, Abha Branch, in 1407 AH, after which he completed his internship at King Fahd General Hospital, after which he was appointed to the same hospital in the Orthopedic Department as a resident doctor. He enrolled in the Saudi specialties program at the same hospital in the orthopedic specialty, and in 2002 he obtained a scholarship approval to Canada to study the same specialty for a period of five years. He left the Saudi fellowship programs and joined the Canadian Fellowship Program in 2002 in Canada in Montreal with McMaster University and finished his program in In 2007, during that period, he obtained approval to complete his scholarship for an additional two years.

He started his fellowship in spine surgery in Canada in Montreal, McGill University, and ended his two-year program.

In 2009 he returned to Saudi Arabia to begin his career as a consultant orthopedic and spine surgery.

Here is the text of the interview, where the forum members asked questions

What is the effect of sitting on a computer, whether it is a desktop or laptop computer, on the spine and back pain .. ?? Does this totally depend on the time that passes for the person in front of the device .. ?? Does this affect the back curvature or bending .. ??

Sitting for a long time on the computer has its problems that affect the spine. Sitting for a long time with the neck tilted forward may cause pain in the lower neck from the back with weakness and spasm of the neck muscles and thus tension in the head muscles and headaches, as for sitting, it may also cause lower back pain And the area connecting the pelvis to the spine, and the period of time, the longer the incidence of pain will be longer and more severe, so I advise everyone to move permanently if work on the device requires a long period and by at least every two hours and moving the vertebrae of the back and neck, sitting and bending forward may increase the tilt of the back for young children and increase convexity and with Time the bump is not adjustable by exercise and remains an option for surgical intervention

What are the causes through which the pain comes from the back, joints, or bones in general .. ??

The causes are many, but most of them in our societies are due to weakness in the back muscles, roughness in the lumbar spine due to smoking or the nature of work, genetics, arthritis, neuritis, injuries, some rheumatic and bacterial diseases and tumors

Is there a treatment, for example, for such diseases as joint diseases such as roughness or stiffness (paralysis of movement in bones) or to that .. ??

Each problem has a specific intervention, but drug treatment of all kinds, with physical therapy, changing habits and losing weight are among the important basics that help a very large percentage of reducing or relieving pain.

What is the curvature of the spine?

Curvature of the spine is not a disease, but rather a description of the slope of the vertebrae combined, and I think you are concerned with scoliosis, and scoliosis is an increase in the inclinations of the vertebrae and the spine from the front more than ten degrees.

When was the first spinal surgery?

The first spine operations began under the hands of a surgeon named Hervey in the year 1950, i.e. 62 years ago

Treatment of acute and chronic pain of the spine and limbs?

Sorry, the question is not clear

Spinal pain (what caused and treated) and what is the way to avoid it?

We answered the question in advance and I will copy the answer for you

The causes are many, but most of them in our societies are due to weakness in the back muscles, roughness in the lumbar spine due to smoking or the nature of work, genetics, arthritis, neuritis, injuries, some rheumatic and bacterial diseases and tumors

Each problem has a specific intervention, but medicinal treatment of all kinds, along with physical therapy, changing habits and losing weight are among the important basics that help a very large percentage of reducing or relieving pain.

Who has a problem in the vertebrae of the spine l .. Can he exercise later?

It depends on the degree of roughness or slipping, but I advise everyone to avoid sports that carry pressure on the lower back

What are the plant and animal foods that the patient consumes to strengthen these vertebrae and vice versa ??

There are drugs containing glucosamine that are believed to help regenerate cartilage, and there is no detailed study yet explaining how they work.

As for the paragraphs, avoiding nutritious drinks and smoking are important factors, drinking milk and eating liver and all foods that contain calcium and vitamin D and exposure to the sun half an hour before sunset

And to ensure that you do not have any organic disease that causes weakness and fragility of the bone

What is the correct position for sitting in general?

The correct position to sit is to straighten the back and make the ear area line with the knee joint

What causes inflammation of the neck vertebrae and what are the ways to prevent them?

Quality of work, diving, carrying weights over the head, genetic reasons and unknown reasons

And prevention methods are exercises for the neck and not overloading the neck, and there are some cases, such as the wick and the fire, that cannot stop the roughness process, such as some rheumatic diseases and ankylosing spondylights

What is the scientific effect of the five daily prayers in treating back, neck and other pain?

It is known that physical therapy depends on joint movement, muscle strength, and the five prayers is in itself a repetition of the process of staying on the softness of the vertebrae and joints and on strengthening the muscles of the neck and back, so that some physiotherapists in some western countries took the idea of ​​the movements that we do in the prayers and began to implement Special programs based on prayer movements

What are the causes that lead to curvature of the spine? And methods of treatment?

The curvature of the spine to the side is most often due to an unknown cause and is called idiopathic scoliosis, and there are other reasons, either pathological, neurological, or congenital incomplete growth of one or more of the vertebrae, unfortunately, there are no ways to avoid them, but the treatment methods begin with physical therapy and the abdominal belt and end Of surgical operations

If you wanted to advise our youth to keep strong bones free from weakness, what would you say to them?

Exercising and maintaining a healthy body, not overloading the body, avoiding some sessions that lead to increased back pain, avoiding food drinks, reducing the amount of food and being exposed to the sun half an hour before sunset.

What is the best position we can do when pain occurs in the spine?

The position differs depending on the cause of back pain, for example when there is pressure on the nerve outlet, the best position is to bend the back slightly forward, but in the case of a cartilage problem, then bending the back back reduces pain, and for convenience, it is possible to rely on the position that reduces pain, as for the person who He does not suffer from back pain and tries to avoid pain, so the back must remain in a straight position with the lower back slightly bent back

My little sister suffers from the fifth nerve, and now he retreated in the pain and nerve clinics, in the MRI scan, the first, it was found that there was a slight sprain in the spine, and after a while we did other rays and we did not find the sprain, they say just a contraction of the muscles in the shoulder area, although the pain is in the back All, does the spine surgeon interfere in the case of the fifth nerve?

Yes, there is a surgical intervention if necessary for the fifth nerve, but it seems that the problem was in the muscle strain more than it was a problem in the nerve.

Please clarify and clarify the difference between nerve injuries, bones or vertebrae?

Injury to the nerve, its symptoms appear with pain in the affected limb, muscle weakness, numbness, lack of muscle control. As for the vertebral injury, its symptoms are strong pain when moving in the area of ​​the injury and moving up or down the spine.

Is there a diet program for people with lumbar spine?

There is no special diet program, but it is preferable to use foods that help to reduce weight. There is some research in the field of herbal medicine, but for me as a surgeon, it is not first in the treatment plan.

Doctor, I have a dislocated shoulder on my right shoulder and a fracture of one of the last vertebrae in the neck. Sometimes I feel a terrible pain in my neck ... and sometimes cramps in my shoulder due to an accident of about a year, I still suffer from it and painkillers do not relieve pain ...

My second question, I have my little boy when he was born with his left hand, there are no three fingers in it, such as lack of growth. To Bangkok, when he saw the x-ray, he said he needed 3 operations for each finger, but his age exceeds one year because he is currently 7 months now and I waited for a visiting doctor for 11 months from Germany to give me a solution to what is wrong and take him for treatment outside the country

My question, is there a bone transplant ,,, a cosmetic implant due to the growth of the fingers of his hand and its distorted appearance .. Please advise me with my question and may God reward you well?

Sorry for not answering the question because it is outside my specialty