from: back and spinal cord disease
History taking of back and spinal cord disease
- location,
- timing (acute/subacute/chronic)
- worse w/ Valsalva
- radiation
- trauma
- wt loss
- cancer
- fever
- immunocompromised
- IVDU
- neurologic symptom
- saddle anesthesia
- Lhermitte phenomenon
- bowel/bladder/sexual sx (retention, incontinence)