Precise Control: Slipped Disc

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

182

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

520

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Precise Control: Toughened Cement
2. 2Precise Control: Kite Aerobatics
3. 3Precise Control: Slipped Disc
4. 4Precise Control: Disc Jockey

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Extending precise control to some new and unusual areas. Till now, the only cure for a bad slipped disc case has been a major operation on the back. A new pioneering treatment replaces the operation with an injection. A precisely controlled injection of an enzyme dissolves away only the obtruding disc material - and totally without the trauma of the surgeon’s knife.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/182

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

John Wilson

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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