Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Dorsopathien

English translation:

back disorders/dorsopathy

Added to glossary by Kim Metzger
Mar 7, 2001 08:23
23 yrs ago
German term

Dorsopathien

German to English Medical
The text concerns Trainingstherapie (exercise therapy?) for back patients. Der wirtschaftliche Druck, welcher durch die Dorsopathien entsteht ...
Is there such a thing as dorsopathologies? I'm also not sure of the suffix -pathien

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dorsopathy / back disorders

"A convincing example for this is the Bad Harzburg Compact Cure "Degenerative spine sicknesses and chronic dorsopathy". It requires three weeks of intensive work at the movement apparatus by the parient. Because doctors have recognized in the meantime: The best medicine for back problems, which is after all Germany's top ranking public sickness, is a purposefully trained body. In former days, mostly heat and radiation were the treatment for spine pains and stiff shoulders. In Bad Harzburg, patients are also treated with pain relieving frost."

Here is a Google hit that supports your translation of Trainingstherapie as "exercise therapy":

"... found strong evidence that exercise therapy was equally as effective as ... patients with
uncomplicated low back disorders, but are less effective ..."
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you. I ended up using back disorders. "
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no ! back diseases

then every disease has its own name, lordosis,scoliosis and so on
you can check on www.grandictionnaire.com (3000000 terms)
no entry for dorsopatologies in french or english
same for back pain, dorsalgia
hope it helps
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sorry for the typo

no entry for dorsopathology or dorsopathy on grandic
it's the best reference i know
hope it helps
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back disorders

dorsopathy (back disorders)

Personally, I'd use "back disorders"

Note that the German uses the plural form, while English uses the singular. Dorsopathy may not be the most commonly used word, but there are some English sites using the term. (I intentionally skipped over any sites originating non-English speaking countries.)

Although there were no significant differences in life-threatening disorders such as cardiovascular disease or cancer, the POWs had significantly higher rates of disorders of the peripheral nervous system (particularly upper limbs), arthropathy (joint disorders), dorsopathy (back disorders), and peptic ulcer.
www.nhrc.navy.mil/news/oct96/powhealth.html

Dorsopathy can also be found in the VA's research data base:
www.virec.research.med.va.gov/DATABASES/RESGUIDE/vol2/nptfp...

HTH
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