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This radiograph shows you
anterolisthesis at L4-L5. This didn’t reproduce very well but this is L4 and this is L5
and you can see that this one has slipped anteriorly relative to L5. This is a fairly
large slip. Actually in some of the experiments, some of the work that we’ve done, this
is basically what we measure, the extent of the slippage. When this happens, what this
does is called encroachment upon the spinal canal making it narrower in this area so then
you are more likely to get pinching of the spinal nerves. |