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From the article: Before You End Your Marriage Over Porn
From the number of comments about porn on our blog and on our Marriage Forum, pornography is a deal breaker for many individuals. What about you? If your spouse continued viewing porn after you shared how much pornography hurt you, what would you do? Readers share their stories.
- After years of marriage I encountered medical issues that really affected sex between myself and my wife. When we returned from a recent trip thee was an anonymous envelope in the mail addressed to me. When I opened it I found a slip of paper with an internet address. When I went to the site I found an amateur porn video of my wife with another guy. I was devastated and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Upon confronting my wife with the video she tried to claim that it wasn't her. But there were so many characteristics that showed that it was her that she decided to just ignore the situation. She still has not admitted it was her despite the obvious. People tell me that I should take action, but I don't want a divorce and my wife was less than honest in the one session of marriage counseling we attended. I am in shock and depression over finding my wife on internet porn.
- —mauryd
Sick of the BS
- We've been married 34 yrs. Trust me it only gets worse. I can't remember what being held, kissed or having sex is like. If your husband refuses to seek professional help, and I mean REAL help, not a liberal hack, but a professional who knows that porn is ALWAYS destructive in every way (I've seen some claim it is healthy), then leave, as fast as you can go. It IS adultery. He IS cheating on you with other women, in his mind it's their hand on him. Start making plans and get ready before he leaves you. You deserve to have a life, to have joy, to be cherished, to be confident that you can trust. Don't let it be stolen away like mine has. There are normal men out there. Addiction to porn is a sickness. You can have a normal life, the way our maker meant it to be. God bless you and give you strength. May He keep you in his loving embrace.
- —Guest Vicky
My Husband is Leaving Me for Porn
- My husband is so involved with pornography that he did not help me raise our children, preferred pornography to me, was sometimes late to work because of it, stayed after work to use it before coming home, has spent 6 hours at a time masturbating to porn, goes without sleep to use porn, admits he loses track of time, refuses to stop, does not care how I feel, was told by his brother that their are women out there that are ok with porn. now, after 29 LONG DIFFICULT years of putting up with his rage and anger and calling me and our son names, and telling my daughter she is fat. HE DECIDED HE WANTS A DIVORCE b/c my son and I push his buttons and he wants to be free to do whatever he wants like his single brothers can do. Also, he wants to do his porn and not to have to worry about my morals because he is fine with porn and I am ridiculous!! This is an educated man we are talking about here too ladies!
- —Guest angry 50 +
The Response From a Perpetrator
- I've seen most of these posts are from hurt women which is sad but not surprising. I'm a man who has, soon to be had, a wonderful beautiful woman that means the world to me. I would take a bullet for her in a heartbeat. Men out there, I guarantee you feel the same if you love your wife. But why won't you give up this meaningless degrading garbage? I looked at it for years. My situation is slightly different in that I have bipolar disorder and hypersexuality is a symptom of it, and porn was my outlet for that. I knew when I was well that it was wrong, but I never sought treatment for my disorder and the porn would come back. And now I'm losing her. I never thought I would but every day I can see her drifting away from me and it's tearing me apart. Every man out there take note, your wife WILL find out. She will get fed up. You will lose her and your family. For something that means nothing at the end of the day. On the day you die, alone, porn will not come hold your hand. It won't share in the victories and defeats through your life. It won't lay next to you at night. It won't bear your children and devote it's life raising them. It can bring only pain. It's cheating, it's lying, it's sick. Every time you look at it you are betraying your loved one and you entire family. What I did has caused a pain on my wife that I would not wish on my worst enemy. She has been physically I'll since she found out. Women out there, show your husband what I'm saying. Show them there future. I had it all and it's slipping through my fingers and I am forced to watch it go an everything in my power is not enough to stop it. I am alone, my son will grow up in a broken home because of this and it will affect him the rest of his life. I have effectively ruined three lives because of this. It will happen to you. I've pledged to be a better person and seek treatment but I fear I'm too late. And just like all the men out there, I thought it was not such a big deal. Every guy does it. Well here's one that doesn't but I will live the rest of my life alone because of it. Men please read these words and that you're playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun. It's not worth it. I hope and pray my words can save one marriage, one soul, one child's innocence. Before it's too late like it is for me.
- —Guest
The Man Who Didn't Understand.
- My girlfriend just found some porn in my history last night. As a man who grew up in the in the dawn of the internet, and internet porn, I had not thought of the affect that it has on a spouse. I have been at work all day and she won't return my texts. We haven't talked since last night, in fact the only communication I've had from her was an e-mail with a link to this site, and a note this morning that said things people say when they break up: "I have lost respect for you.""I don't trust you." and the most difficult one of all, "you aren't who I thought you were." My girlfriend is the smartest, funniest, and most amazing woman I've ever met, and up until now, we've had an awesome relationship. I love everything about her...but it's hard to feel like a man when you've betrayed the person who trusts you the most...I just hope that when I get home, I don't have to turn around and leave...
- —Guest Is it too late?
Men Need Understanding Too
- My husband of 8 years and I have been struggling with this issue since before we were married. I see him as a human being who is struggling with something, as we all do. It took a long time for me to learn how to speak with him about it in a way that he'd respond. Respectfully, calmly, non-accusingly. It's taken years. But I know my husband is a good person and father. Recently I've even able to encourage him to open his heart to my perspective. He has gone through so much trying to talk to me - embarrassment, not feeling capable of expressing himself well, not really understanding "why" himself, etc. But he is really trying. I told him that I needed therapy for the way I am reacting to his constant porn use and the lying that accompanies it. When he saw it that way he truly felt badly. He's agreed to therapy immediately and to honesty even when he watches. We have great sex but he's been watching since childhood. Please remember to be patient and kind to men also. They aren't monsters
- —Guest Hopeful Wife
Been There, Done That
- My husband also watches porn, secretly and lies to me. He would often leave me to go to bed on my own so that he can stay downstairs with the TV, DVD machine, computer, laptop, mobile phone and more recently his Hudl. As you can see from what he has been using to watch it, his porn watching predates the modern internet. He has also produced sons who think it is OK. Needless-to-say, our marriage is nonexistent. I have grown to hate and resent him for his lies. Unfortunately, his lies and deceit did not stop at pornography. He developed "feelings" for women at work. So what was left of our marriage? He was getting emotional closeness at work and his sexual needs were being met via his Hudl. Which is why our marriage is over. So, I would say to all the people who try to make light of it: please don't. The use of porn leads to loneliness and broken marriages.
- —Guest Angela
- We have been married 40 years and been together 43 years. My husband has been looking at porn for 1 year now everyday and likes the teen porn sites. It makes me sick to my stomach as he masterbates all the time and said he wants his youth. He has never cheated on me but I tell him to quit watching and it just escalates into an argument, then tells me I am bi***ing so it is my fault. Feel lost and alone.
- —Guest Hurting
- We have been married 40 years and been together 43 years. My husband has been looking at porn for 1 year now everyday and likes the teen porn sites. It makes me sick to my stomach as he masterbates all the time and said he wants his youth. He has never cheated on me but I tell him to quit watching and it just escalates into an argument, then tells me I am bitching so it is my fault. Feel lost and alone.
- —Guest Hurting
- We have been together for 16 years...he was my night and shining amour. 4 years ago he told me a terrible lie about money that I found out about accidentally and lied straight to my face. I asked him to get help then, but he always had an excuse . My trust wash shattered. Fast forward years I still have no trust and question everything. I happened to look at his phone and found so much porn...pics, movies...Of course denial. I look at his pc and found so much porn and dating sights on his web browser. Still denied even with proof in front of him..."I didn't download, I didn't go into any dating site." I can't function, I am consumed with distrust constantly questioning everything. Always has an excuse - he said he is going to counselor, but it has materialized. I am so sick - my life, our marriage will never be the same. I am so sick and scared of my future. At least I am a medical professional and can take care of myself, but I will never be the same.
- —Guest carla
I Want to Say Something to Women
- My name is Heather Hill, I am an author and I have written a novel, based on the experiences of partners of porn addiction. It is a comedy novel, but addresses this very subject in a serious and intelligent manner. 'The New Mrs D' tackles the difficult, mostly unspoken about subject of porn addiction in a work of comedy fiction. Don't be misled into believing that my book seeks to make fun of the subject of porn addiction in relationships. In fact, its purpose is far removed from that. My reason for writing it was to bring the issue to the foreground and help women who are living in a relationship which is challenging their sense of self worth. If you are struggling with this issue - as I have myself in the past - this book might really help you, which is why I am leaving this information here. I'd like to reach those that need it most. I hope you will look it up.
- —hell4heather
Up Hill Battle
- I have been with my mate for 13 years, living together 6. From the time we started having sex, ED was present. We were in our 30's and I couldn't understand why. Over the years we had to plan our sex around Cialis & he said it was a medical issue. I believed him until I learned of Porn rel. ED. Many conversations only led to more intense porn use & soon I find the content getting more extreme. He says he's quit but I find out different. Our sex needed to be more extreme for him to keep erect even with meds. I then discover he was posting ads for Extreme sex with strangers. Private emails, chats, meetings, & actual cheating. Always an excuse & usually making it my fault. That is a true addict! & the lies get better each time. I don't think they realize the depth of what that does to the psyc of a woman. It now has made me not at all interested in the fun, kinky things I was always eager to do with him, nor do I want him to see me naked. So many emotions & so hard to trust or heal.
- —dndaws
I Don't Understand
- I dated my husband a yr and a half and married 7mths. He's 28 and I'm 20. I knew he watched porn and I agreed to watch at first, we still hadn't had sex because I was a virgin and wanted to take it slow. After awhile I told him I didn't want him to watch him anymore and he stopped once we started having sex.I have enjoyed having sex minimum twice a day for a yr and 4mths now. Doing whatever or whenever he wanted. Buying cute little uniforms, etc. I'm not perfect looking but im young, passionate, and I admit I still turn the usual head around in the street. For 7mths I have felt worse and worse about myself. He tries to hide that he watches porn and I show him and he still denies it. He says its not about the women. What is it? The dialogue? I try to work it out with him. Asking what I can do, if there's anything bothering him, etc. Once do talk he stops watching for a few weeks and then goes back at it. I just feel like I've done everything I can. From reasoning with him to blaming my
- —Guest Stephanie
Found Porn in His Browser History
- found porn again in his browser history on his cell phone. I was out of town and late at night he was looking at these porn videos. I went through this last yera, m we switched cell carriers, he got a new # after he said he was being set up & hacked. I also saw history that he was looking at installing a dating app for zoosk on his phone...as well as chat rooms he looks at. i asked him 2 weeks ago if he did the stuff i found then and of course he didnt! now there is so much more i found. He did this to me last year and swears he was framed ...but he was involved in a secret texting session with a former friend of our daughters who was 21 ..they texted 200 plus times a day and it was innocent! she was in texas and we are in different state. I am sick to my stomach with stress. he is lying to me again and again. how do i catch him and prove its him.
- —hulat68
Feel Betrayed
- My husband of over 1yr together 5 has been looking at pornography every day for the past month. I have told him how it hurt me when I found it and how it made me feel. We had this talk in the first year of our relationship on my feelings and he told me he wouldnt use it and all he needed was me. LIE I told him a week ago how I felt and still everyday its still been on his phone so that tells me he doesnt care about my feelings. Should I leave? I cant even look at him anymore without wanting to break down and bawl my eyes out I have even been so sick to my stomach for days?
- —breyma
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Leave the cookies alone it's time to eat meat now
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Hebrews 5:12- "You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food" (meat). As you become more spiritually mature you need to move beyond digesting the stuff that the spiritually young do. Cool 'cookies & milk' play he did here.
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The Interfaith Couples of ConnectedBy Gerri Miller
An interview with the two interfaith couples on the new show Connected where stars film their own relationshipsGo To Pop Culture
Tag Archives: Death and Mourning
Adaptation and Flexibility for Death and Mourning Customs
My Aunt just died. She had been sick, lived to be 88, and had a wonderful marriage of 62 years. One of the sweetest people I ever knew. Her dear husband is 96 and devastated. He is in excellent health and still drives. He keeps remarking, "who lives to be 96?" He bought a car last year and the salesman offered an extended service plan. He looked at his daughter and laughed. He was lucky she was letting him get a car. My uncle is stunned to be alive and well but now without his beloved wife.
Our family is understandably sad and is in mourning. Typically in Judaism there is a funeral and a mourning process called shiva. What is unique about this case is that her husband (my uncle) doesn't want a funeral or to observe shiva. To provide you with his perspective, he escaped the Holocaust, leaving Vienna for the US. His parents however were killed in a concentration camp. He feels that his parents had no funeral or religion associated with their death and he and my aunt decided long ago that there was no need for any ceremonies for them either.
My side of the family is quite religious and would like to observe shiva, but we completely respect his wishes. I would have gone to a funeral or to see my uncle and cousins but that is not what my uncle wants. My father has decided to sit shiva at his home (in another state). Many of my father's cousins who knew my aunt will come to the house and tell sweet stories about her. This process will likely help my father and his brother grieve the loss of their sister. My father will say kaddish for a month (a prayer at daily services) and this too will help him grieve.
What I find so beautiful is that Jewish culture supports both wishes and both needs. Everyone grieves in their own way, and I love that Jewish culture provides us with what we need, when we need it. Grief is personal but can be lonely. Judaism provides the constructs for people to move forward at their own pace.
Debbie Friedman z"l
Today's just not a happy day to be blogging.
On Saturday, while people were hearing news of the Arizona shooting, some of us were saying a mi sheberakh (a traditional Jewish prayer for the sick) for Debbie Friedman, who was quite ill. Then on Sunday, we heard the sad news that Friedman had passed away.
Friedman was best known as a Jewish songwriter, often credited with reinvigorating synagogue music (especially in the Reform movement). Through her music, many people found prayers more accessible and interesting. Friedman could be credited for making Reform Judaism more welcoming to the masses. As BZ wrote on Jewschool, "Her goal was always (as she wrote in the liner notes to Sing Unto God back in 1972) 'the importance of community involvement in worship'."
She was among the first to combine Hebrew and English words in liturgical songs. Rabbi Daniel Freeland, Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism, said in a 2007 tribute video,
The English tells you exactly what the song is about, what the prayer is about, even if you don't understand the Hebrew. And she was able to get us to feel comfortable singing Hebrew words because she gave us the English language spiritual overlay – which can be translated into any language. It was a very creative spin, and, frankly, Debbie reintroduced English into the American Reform vocabulary in the 1970s, after it had been totally banished.
(You can watch the full video, embedded below.)
Her impact was so huge, a healing service, put together and held on Sunday at the Manhattan JCC, was not only completely full, but was streamed online. Several thousand people tuned in to watch it live, and many thousand more have watched it since (and I'm sure many more will do so over the coming days and weeks). You can view the video here; the service starts around the 16:00 minute mark. Unsurprisingly, the service started with one of Friedman's tunes, with which everyone sang along. As was said in the service, it shifted from a healing service to become an unofficial memorial instead, with the community acting as shomrim (guards), singing her songs with hopes of guarding her soul. (Word of Friedman's passing spread shortly before this service was scheduled to start.)
You can read the URJ's statement, an obituary in the Forward or Memories of Debbie Friedman on Jewschool.com. You can also read through #rememberingdebbie tweets or add your own using the #rememberingdebbie hashtag.
The following video was shown as Debbie Friedman was honored with the Alexander M. Schindler Distinguished Service Award at the 2007 Union for Reform Judaism Biennial Convention:
May her memory be for blessing.
Gabrielle Giffords
This weekend, tragedy unfolded when a gunman opened fire in front of a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Six people were killed and 14 others were wounded, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
Giffords was the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona state Senate, and then in 2007 became the third Arizona woman ever to serve in Congress. At that time, she also became Arizona's first Jewish congresswoman. Raised in an interfaith family, Giffords didn't always identify as Jewish.
[Giffords' father], Spencer, married outside his faith. Gloria Giffords is a Christian Scientist. The couple say they always encouraged their children to learn about other religions.
We find more about Gifford's Jewish heritage in the Forward:
Giffords' Jewish roots run deep. As the Forward reported back in 2006, her paternal grandfather, the son of a Lithuanian rabbi, was born Akiba Hornstein. He changed his name, first to Gifford Hornstien and later to Gifford Giffords, apparently to shield himself from anti-Semitism out West.
We wish her an easy and fast recovery, while her husband says, "There is little that we can do but pray for those who are struggling," Giffords included.
Our condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims: Christina Taylor Greene, 9; Dorothy Morris, 76; John Roll, 63, U.S. District Judge; Phyllis Scheck, 79; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Gabe Zimmerman, 30, director of community outreach for Giffords. May their memories be for blessing.
Resources on Jewish Ethics
I'm gearing up to teach at Havurat Shalom's Tikkun Lel Shavuot–I'm planning to do a class on the Jewish Spirituality Resource Guide. I wound up writing a lot about how Jewish ethics fit into Jewish spirituality. You can have a lot more discussion of ethical than spiritual questions in a class setting, I find.
The Jewish Publication Society has created a new website to accompany their new series of books on Jewish responses to contemporary ethical issues, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices. The site includes a blog with some awfully high-powered writers (presumably excerpted from the series) a apparently permanently open chat window for discussing the issues, and forum with some incendiary starting questions. Hot stuff!
The second thing is a book review of Susan Handelman's Fragments of Redemption by my friend Adina Levin. Why a book review? Because it contains a lucid and easy to understand discussion of Walter Benjamin. That's not something you come across every day.
The third thing is a website that helps people write ethical wills, called www.ethicalwill.com. Writing an ethical wills is a Jewish cultural custom that anyone can adopt–the practice of putting on paper the moral legacy you'd like your children, grandchildren and students to have from you. What do you think are the most important insights you've learned in your life? If you are having a major lifecycle event, like a wedding, a bar or
Finally resting
I first saw the New York Daily News story reprinted on an Orthodox Jewish website, VosIzNeias. The news was, a New York state court determined that the non-Jewish widow of Jamie Herskowitz, Debra Eirand-Herskowitz, has permission to exhume and move her husband's remains to the cemetery at the local church in Tuxedo, N.Y., after a three-year legal battle.
Apparently, when Mr. Herskowitz died, Eirand-Herskowitz gave permission to her mother-in-law for her husband to be buried at the family plot at the Mount Carmel Cemetery, not realizing she herself would not be able to be buried beside him because she is not Jewish. She later felt deceived and hurt by her in-laws because they did not inform her of the rules of traditional Jewish cemeteries.
Though Mr. Herskowitz, well-known in New York for his role as the concessionaire at Yankee Stadium, had discussed his burial plans informally with both his wife and his mother, he had not established his plans for burial in writing. According to the court proceedings, both parties–the widow and the mother–believed they knew Mr. Herskowitz's wishes. In the end the court decided that the close marital relationship made it more likely that Eirand-Herskowitz knew what her husband had wanted.
Reading the court proceedings disturbed me. Much of the testimony was devoted to establishing the religious observance of Mr. Herskowitz. In order to show that he would not have minded being buried near a church, Eirand-Herskovitz discussed their observance of Christmas and Easter, mentioning that they had a Christmas tree in their home. Mr. Herskowitz's mother, who lived in California and hadn't had much contact with the couple over their 19 years of marriage, asserted that Jewishness was important to her son because when he went Carmel Cemetery with her to visit his father's grave, he would take out a prayer book, put on a yarmulke, and say a prayer. It doesn't seem to me that either having a Christmas tree or wearing a yarmulke and saying a prayer at a gravesite establish how important it was to an individual to be buried in a Jewish cemetery, or next to his spouse in a non-Jewish cemetery.
It's a basic difficulty all interfaith couples face in death. If the Jewish partner wants to be buried next to his spouse, in most Jewish cemeteries he cannot. A few Jewish cemeteries have created sections where interfaith couples may be buried together, but most have not. To avoid this kind of sad family conflict at the worst possible time–when someone dies–talk with your family about what you want, and put it in writing. We have a discussion packet on this issue that will help you get started talking with your spouse.
Positive Examples
"I'm a positive person," my 6-year-old told me. He is! During this month of Elul before Rosh Hashanah, I'm working on being more positive, too. Sometimes it feels good just to point out all the great things Jewish organizations are doing to reach out to people from interfaith families, and all the great things people in interfaith families are doing in the world.
On Wednesday we published a great feature on Jewish healing rituals for interfaith families. Many of the organizations we mentioned wanted further contact with us, and I had a chance to speak with Rabbi Eric Weiss, the director of the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. I think I persuaded him to join our network, since he'd like to do more outreach to people in interfaith couples and families, but I wanted to be sure to announce the Healing Center's Grief and Growing Weekend, because it's this weekend, September 11-13. If you know someone who just suffered a catastrophic loss, this program is to support them. I liked the way the web page explicitly welcomed non-Jewish participants in the Jewish programming.
Later this week we're going to run an article by Jeffrey Grover about his experience developing a play on interfaith marriage, but just in case you live in Cleveland and don't know about Thursday's performance at the Ratner School of "Both Sides of the Family", I wanted to give you a heads-up. The cool thing about this program is that the audiences demanded the discussion period after the show, by sticking around in their seats. I'm from Cleveland and I have to tell you, that's pretty unusual!
I also wanted to give a shout-out to Matthew Scott, who wrote a story for us about cooking Jewish food in an interfaith relationship. He's started a new job teaching fourth grade in the Baltimore City Public Schools. Isn't that cool? I would love to update people on the great things our authors are doing–would you like to hear more about that? I don't mind a little kvelling in the comments, you know.
Life Lessons From New Israeli Cemetery
This morning, I read a news story about a new cemetery in Kfar Saba, in Israel. The Jerusalem Post article about the cemetery notes that this cemetery will provide options for interfaith couples who want to be buried together. Civil burials have been legal in Israel since 1996, when the Knesset passed an Alternative Burial Law. Until that time, death, like other lifecycle events, was governed by the religious community of the individual. Israel inherited this system from the British Mandate government, which in turn maintained what was in place under Ottoman rule, so for centuries, interfaith couples in the land of Israel couldn't be buried near one another.
Until recently, the only burial option for interfaith couples (and presumably for anyone whom the Israeli rabbinate didn't consider Jewish) was to be buried on one of the kibbutzim that shared non-religious cemetery space. The Kfar Saba plots will cost much less than kibbutz burials. Residents in Kfar Saba will pay what everyone in Israel pays to bury relatives in government cemeteries.
According to the article about the cemetery in Haaretz, The society that maintains the cemetery is called Menucha Nechona or "correct rest," which is resonant with the words of the Jewish memorial prayer, El Malei Rachamim (God, Full of Mercy). The civil cemetery will allow people to have secular burials with such customs as coffins and music at funerals, though these are not allowed in state Jewish funerals, but I don't see this as an anti-religious effort. The regular burial society of Kfar Saba cooperated with the new group in dedicating some of the burial ground as a traditional Jewish cemetery, and there will be Orthodox burials there in additional to liberal Jewish burials and secular, non-religious ones. Allowing immigrants from other countries burials in a style that they are used to is secondary to the issue of being able to bury families together.
For interfaith families in Israel, this is a step forward. It also provides a model for Jews in the diaspora. The Jewish community is pluralistic, it contains non-Jewish family members and it has to accommodate difference. Our cemeteries should allow for all of that too.
Jewish Mourning in Mexico–A Comedy?
I've been meaning for some time to write about my Twitter pal, Rabbi Joshua Kullock, the rabbi of Guadalajara, Mexico. He blogs at Kol Ha-Kehila. If you are looking for Spanish-language resources to share information about Judaism with Spanish-speaking extended family, Rabbi Kullock does a regular online class on the prophet Amos in Spanish, and you can watch the class after it as aired as a recording, though you have to register. (I'm posting this now in part because I finally registered and figured out how to listen to it.)
I thought of Rabbi Kullock when I saw this crazy movie trailer. This is the second movie trailer I've seen about a shivah, the Jewish traditional week of mourning after a funeral–but this one is a comedy. Continue reading
Shiva, The Movie
I wonder if this movie, Shiva, about a Jewish family from Morocco mourning for a family member will be released in English? I found the trailer, in Hebrew with French subtitles, on the South Jerusalem blog. I think the trailer is interesting to watch even if you don't know the languages, but you tell me.
If the movie does come out with English translation or subtitles, it would be great for the people who read www.interfaithfamily.com. We know we get a lot of hits from people who want to know about Jewish mourning practices. An article like the ones that Lula Jones and Valerie Cooper each wrote for us about being a non-Jew at a Jewish funeral for the first time could be helpful. Still, it would be neat to have a high-drama movie like this one that coincidentally illustrates what Jews do during mourning:


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Historic Season For Can-Am Off-Road Racers
Record season includes SCORE Class 19, GNCC XC1 SxS and 4×4 Pro Titles Valcourt, Québec, December 11, 2014 –BRP's Can-Am ATV and side-by-side racers earned a record number of wins and championships across North America in 2014. Racers secured more than 16 … Continue reading
Burnett Wins SCORE Championship With Can-Am Maverick 1000R
Burnett wins SCORE Championship with Can-Am Maverick 1000R Can-Am Side-By-Side Pilot Cory Sappington Third At 2014 Baja 1000 Valcourt, Québec, November, 19, 2014 – Can-Am® Maverick™ side-by-side racers competed at the 2014 Tecate SCORE International Baja 1000 race on … Continue reading
Zakowski Wins Iowa Racing Title With Can-Am Maverick
Valcourt, Québec, October 15, 2014 – Zac Zakowski secured the 2014 Open UTV Championship in his Can-Am® Maverick™ 1000R X® xc at the Iowa ATV Hare Scramble Series (IATVHSS) finale in Carlisle, Iowa. Maverick 1000R racers also competed at the … Continue reading
Can-Am Maverick 1000R Racers Earn GNCC, TORN Wins
ATV and Side-By-Side Racers Tally Numerous Podiums Valcourt, Québec, Oct. 8, 2014 – Can-Am® ATV and side-by-side racers earned five class wins and 15 total class podiums at the ITP Powerline Park Grand National Cross Country race in Ohio. … Continue reading
Can-Am Endurance Racers Earn Numerous Wins, 2 Regional Titles
Hendershot Wins WEXCR, AWRCS Titles With Maverick 1000R Side-By-Side Vehicle Can-Am GNCC Racers Win Five Morning Classes; Zakowski Dominant in Iowa Valcourt, Québec, September 24, 2014 – The JB Off-Road / Hendershot Performance / Can-Am® X-Team recently captured two regional … Continue reading


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Some journalists were beaten up by the police when they tried to enter a private nursing home where a patient allegedly jumped to his death here on Tuesday.
The incident occurred shortly after a 68-year-old psychiatric patient, Arabindra Chakraborty, allegedly jumped to death from the roof of the home in south Kolkata. The locals staged a demonstration and put up a road block alleging negligence by the home management and demanded the arrest of its owner. When journalists tried to enter the home to get details, they found the gate locked.
Meanwhile, the police who wielded batons to disperse the demonstrators did not spare the journalists. One scribe injured in the police action was admitted to a nursing home.
Hours after the incident, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee referred it as a "small incident" and urged police and journalists to "increase understanding" between themselves.
She said police personnel responsible for the incident have been suspended.
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FINALS WATCH: Louisville wins national title
"Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan
The leaders and best!"
"I heard `The Victors.' I heard the best fight song in the world," said Beilein, who was then a coach at Division II Le Moyne, and was attending the Final Four in Seattle with his wife, Kathleen.
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Two musicians find inspiration in the idea of Jews and non-Jews living side-by-side
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In the introduction to his influential book Imagined Communities, political scientist Benedict Anderson took mild issue with the work of a colleague, Jewish intellectual Ernest Gellner. Gellner, whose family fled to England from Czechoslovakia just before World War II, had famously claimed that nationalism "invents nations where they don't exist." But Anderson thought that Gellner—who, to be fair, had good reason to be wary of nationalism—was wrong to suggest that only some nations are dreamt into being by the people who inhabit them. "Communities are to be distinguished," Anderson himself wrote, "not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined."
And that, my friends, would make an ideal inscription for a gift box containing the latest releases by cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Matthew Herskowitz. Both were inspired by places where Jews and non-Jews have lived side-by-side in relative peace and harmony–places that either ceased to exist a long time ago, or might never have existed in quite the way we like to imagine.
For Beiser, that place was medieval Spain, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians are said to have lived together in a spirit of tolerance for centuries. Over the past several decades, historians have challenged that rosy picture, though even those who point toward the persecution of Jews under Moorish rule admit that their coreligionists in Christian Europe had it far worse. Beiser came to the so-called Golden Age while searching for the nearest thing to her own childhood, which was spent on a kibbutz in a part of northern Israel dotted with Muslims, Christians, and Druze.
"One of my earliest musical memories was hearing the muezzin call to prayer at 5 a.m.," says Beiser, who attended weddings and other celebrations in a nearby Bedouin village. "I grew up only performing Western classical music, but through my career as an artist, I've been trying to find those roots." (A student of Isaac Stern, Beiser later attended Yale University and helped found the new-music ensemble Bang on a Can.)
Beiser spent time in Andalusia with composer Douglas Cuomo, searching for traces of a Judeo-Islamic musical landscape. But 1,000 years is a long time, and ultimately, she had to build the thing she was looking for from scratch.
She named it Provenance, and it may be even more diverse than its historical model, incorporating as it does new compositions by an Iranian Kurd (Kayhan Kalhor's "I Was There," based on a melody by a Persian musician in the Ummayad court), an Armenian duduk virtuoso (Jivan Gasparyan's "Memories"), an Israeli-American composer (Tamar Muzkal's "Mar de Leche," which incorporates a Ladino song text), and two guys from an island in the North Sea (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's "Kashmir"). The recording features Middle Eastern hand drums, an oud, a lone vocalist–and, most important, Beiser herself.
As much as I enjoy Beiser's improvised exchanges with the remarkable oud player Bassam Saba, and as much as I thrill to the impassioned singing of Sephardic song specialist Etty Ben-Zaken, I am happiest when I have Beiser all to myself, as when she takes an extended solo over a drone on "Mar de Leche" or electronically loops and layers herself on Cuomo's "Only Breath."
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Her playing is striking not only because it captures so much of the feeling and even the distinctive nuances of Arab music, but also because it sounds so much like singing. In part, this is due to the range and sonority of the cello—"one of the reasons I was attracted to the instrument is that it's closest to the human voice," she says—but a lot of it has to do with Beiser. She moans, she sighs, she rumbles and keens; she does everything that a singer can, with nothing more than a piece of wood, some metallic strings, and a horsehair bow. The land she sings into being with those basic materials might be imaginary, but it feels real to me.
The same goes for the city that stands athwart Herskowitz's "Jerusalem Trilogy," a three-movement work that appears on the album of the same name. Commissioned by the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York to write a piece for a program of music by Jewish composers, Herskowitz—a native New Yorker who now lives in Montreal—focused on "the idea of Jews, Arabs, and Christians all living together, if not always getting along." He didn't consciously set out to mirror the notion of Jerusalem as a multicultural mosaic in music, but that's pretty much what he got.
"I realized halfway through the first movement that it was an integration of Jewish and Arab styles, and it surprised me," he says.
For the better part of the past decade, Herskowitz has been hammering out a personal synthesis of jazz and classical music. But a recent collaboration with the Absolute Ensemble brought him into contact with a number of Arab musicians. "They taught me a lot about their music," he says, "And there's a lot to learn; it's very sophisticated, and there are a lot of layers." Meanwhile, an ongoing project with Yiddish singer Theresa Tova—Herskowitz played piano on Tova's 2006 release, You Ask Me Why, a collection of songs by Yiddish poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman—exposed him to European Jewish music.
All of that comes out in "Jerusalem Trilogy," and in several other tracks, as well. There are hints of klezmer-tango on Herskowitz's arrangement of "Gottingen," a '60s-era hit for the French chanteuse Barbara; and polonaise rhythms vie with Arab ones for the soul of "Polonaise Libanaise," a rearrangement of Chopin's "Polonaise in F# Minor." Bassam Saba pops up again too, playing both the oud and the nay, an end-blown flute with a pleasantly nasal timbre.
As with Provenance, however, the album belongs to its primary architect. Herskowitz is rightly praised for his prodigious technique, but like Beiser, he's expressive rather than flashy. Whether he's playing power chords at the piano, executing a dazzling run, or working through a dense bit of improvised counterpoint, he never seems to be showing off; instead, everything has some narrative logic or emotional purpose. And while the musical world he constructs from all of those gestures—some jazz, some classical, some Jewish, some Arab—might not appear on any map, it's well worth a visit.
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Ive spent a lot of time at Lago deAverno (Lake of Averno) shooting dragonflies. There are several species of them but the most common is the Violet Darter in the photo. After a while you start to pick up on their habits and quirks, and you learn when you can get close and when you're wasting your time. The trick is to find one that's busy. If they are feeding, mating, or otherwise occupied then they are less likely to fly away. If they do fly off then just freeze -if the dragon comes back to the same spot (or close to it) then try again. If the critter lands several meters away from you then look for a new subject to shoot.
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The present disclosure concerns implants to at least partially replace the nucleus of a spinal disc. In one embodiment, a prosthetic implant is provided which includes a bag structure having a fixation component or member, the bag operable to contain at least one internal implant within the bag. In other embodiments, a bag structure is provided with a flange adaptable to anchor the structure to a vertebral body and a sinusoidal-shaped structure made of a flexible material is provided with various unique configurations. In one embodiment, for delivery, a bag structure with a flange may be attached to a vertebral body. In another embodiment, a sinusoidal-shaped implant structure is alternately woven from one end to the other with a second sinusoidal-shaped structure.
1. A method of implanting a prosthetic structure into an intervertebral space comprising:
selecting a disc having a nucleus;
removing a substantial portion of the nucleus of the disc to create a cavity; introducing
to the cavity a bag structure comprising an opening for receiving an interior implant structure, a fixation component comprising a flexible material, and a flange capable of anchoring the bag structure to a vertebral body;
deploying the bag structure in the cavity;
anchoring the bag structure to a vertebral body using the flange;
introducing an interior implant structure to the bag through the opening; and
sealing the opening of the bag structure;
wherein introducing the interior implant structure includes a non-helical sinusoidal-shaped structure having periodic portions formed of a flexible material, and wherein introducing the interior implant structure in the bag structure comprises:
stretching the interior implant structure in a longitudinal direction to reduce the amplitude of the periodic portions of the structure to be able to fit the interior implant structure into the opening of the bag structure;
loading the interior implant structure onto a delivery device;
inserting the interior implant structure into the bag structure using the delivery device;
loading the interior implant structure within the bag structure until the bag structure is substantially filled;
releasing the interior implant structure from the delivery device within the bag\structure wherein the flexible nature of the material causes the stretched interior implant structure to substantially resume its unstretched state within the bag structure; and
removing excess interior implant structure.
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This is a continuation application that claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. � 120 of non-provisional U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/332,622, filed Jan. 13, 2006. The aforementioned application is hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes.
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to disc replacement therapy. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, devices and materials that may be used in disc replacement therapy procedures.
The spinal column consists of a complex system of bones and connective tissues that provides support for the body and protects the delicate spinal cord and nerves. The spinal column includes a series of vertebrae stacked one on top of the other, each vertebral body includes an inner or central portion of relatively weak cancellous bone and an outer portion of relatively strong cortical bone. Situated between each vertebral body is an intervertebral disc that cushions and dampens compressive forces experienced by to the spinal column. A vertebral canal containing the spinal cord and nerves is located behind the vertebral bodies.
The bones and connective tissue of an adult human spinal column consists of more than 20 discrete bones coupled sequentially to one another by a tri-joint complex which consist of an anterior disc and the two posterior facet joints, the anterior discs of adjacent bones cushioned by intervertebral discs. These more than 20 bones are anatomically categorized as being members of one of four classifications: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, or sacral. The cervical portion of the spine, which includes the top of the spine, up to the base of the skull, includes the first 7 vertebrae. The intermediate 12 bones are the thoracic vertebrae, and connect to the lower spine comprising the 5 lumbar vertebrae. The base of the spine is the sacral bone (including the coccyx). The component bones of the cervical spine are generally smaller than those of the thoracic and lumbar spine. Although complex, the spine is a highly flexible structure, capable of a high degree of curvature and twist in nearly every direction.
Many types of spinal column disorders affect the function and integrity of the spine such as degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis (forward displacement of one vertebra over another, usually in a lumbar or cervical spine), scoliosis (abnormal lateral curvature of the spine), kyphosis (abnormal forward curvature of the spine, usually in the thoracic spine), excess lordosis (abnormal backward curvature of the spine, usually in the lumbar spine) and other disorders caused by abnormalities, disease, or trauma, such as ruptured or slipped discs, degenerative disc disease, fractured vertebra, and the like. Patients that suffer from such conditions usually experience extreme and debilitating pain, as well as diminished nerve function.
Spinal pathologies limit the range, and/or threaten the critical elements of the nervous system housed within the spinal column. A variety of systems exist that achieve immobilization by implanting artificial assemblies in or on the spinal column. Lateral and anterior assemblies are coupled to the anterior portion of the spine, which is the sequence of vertebral bodies. Posterior implants generally include pairs of rods that are aligned along the axis which the bones are to be disposed, and which are then attached to the spinal column.
One of the most common motion segment surgical interventions is called arthrodesis, or spine fusion. Clinical success varies considerably, depending upon technique and indications, and consideration must be given to the concomitant risks and complications. For example, it has been shown that spine fusion decreases function by limiting the range of motion for patients in flexion, extension, rotation, and lateral bending. Furthermore, it has been shown that spine fusion creates increased stresses and, therefore, accelerated degeneration of adjacent non-fused motion segments. Also, the fusion device, whether artificial or biological, may migrate out of the fusion site.
While some disc replacement materials and methods currently are known, further improvements are needed. Thus, needs exist for placement of disc replacement materials and structures that may provide support and preserve motion.
In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a prosthetic structure for replacement of at least a portion of the intervertebral disc nucleus. In some embodiments, use of this structure allows the annulus fibrosis to remain substantially intact. The device includes a bag structure made from a flexible material having a cavity therein. The bag structure includes an opening that is in communication with the cavity, and may include a fixation component, which is adapted to allow fixation to vertebral endplates when placed into the cavity. The bag structure with a fixation component is adapted to remain within an intervertebral disc space without extrusion from the space in one example when the fixation component interacts with vertebral bodies. Further, the bag structure may include an interfacing layer wherein the interfacing layer may be situated between a bag structure and a fixation component. In some embodiments, an interfacing layer reduces the contact between a bag structure and a fixation component.
In some embodiments, a fixation component may include a mechanical structure, a flexible material and/or an agent. In some embodiments, the flexible material may include a semi-permeable flexible material. In some embodiments, the flexible material of the bag structure may include a material having a metallic property.
In some embodiments, a bag structure may have a component such as an anchoring component like a flange. Optionally, the flange may contain holes capable of being used to anchor the bag structure to a vertebral body.
Further, in another particular embodiment, the present invention may include implanting a prosthetic bag structure having a fixation component. The annulus may be partially resected, a substantial portion of the disc nucleus may be removed to create a cavity. Vertebral endplates may be prepared by any known method in the art. In accordance with this particular embodiment, a bag structure having a fixation component may be introduced to the cavity and configured to receive an interior implant structure.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates to another method for implanting a prosthetic structure into an intervertebral space. In accordance with this embodiment, the annulus may remain substantially intact by cutting the annulus to form an opening that is capable of being repositioned to substantially its original position.
A more complete understanding of the present invention may be derived by referring to the detailed description of preferred embodiments and claims when considered in connection with the figures.
In the Figures, similar components and/or features may have the same reference label. Further, various components of the same type may be distinguished by following the reference label with a second label that distinguishes among the similar components. If only the first reference label is used in the specification, the description is applicable to any one of the similar components having the same first reference label irrespective of the second reference label.
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to devices, materials and methods for replacing at least a portion of an intervertebral disc nucleus and in other embodiments replacing all of an intervertebral disc nucleus. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to disc nucleus prosthesis structures, including prosthesis bag structures, implant structures, and a combination of prosthesis bag structures and implant structures. While various prosthetic structures discussed herein are presented with reference to replacement of part or all of a human disc, embodiments of the present invention have application beyond human disc replacement. For example, the prosthetic structures discussed herein could be used in or with discs for any suitable vertebrate animal that might need of a disc replacement.
Referring now to
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, bag structure 100, and in particular, outer body 110 is formed of a flexible material. In other embodiments, a fixation component 130 may be part of or separate from bag structure 100. For example, fixation component 130 may be associated with upper and lower surfaces of bag structure 100. Fixation component 130 may be introduced to bag structure 100 subsequent to an interfacing layer 140 which may be made of a material such as a polymer. Interfacing layer 140 may serve as an adhesive between the fixation component 130 and the outer surface of an implant structure such as bag structure 100. In addition, interfacing layer 140 may be used to reduce contact between the outer surface of bag structure 100 and fixation component 130. This separation reduces surface contact between fixation component 130 and bag structure 100 that may lead to destruction of an implant structure due to for example contact agitation.
While fixation component 130 has several functions, one function of fixation component 130 may be to decrease the movement of the prosthetic implant within a disc nucleus by inducing intervertebral fixation such as inducing bone ingrowth. Reduction in the movement of the implant structure once placed within a nuclear space may preserve relative motion of a subject receiving such an implant by reducing relative motion of the implant and vertebral endplates. In addition, fixation component 130 once fixed to vertebral endplates is capable to transmitting transverse in-plane shear loads. To induce fixation of any prosthetic implant to intervertebral bodies disclosed herein any known methods for preparing vertebral endplates may be used.
In some embodiments, bag structure 100, and in particular, outer body 110 and fixation component 130 may be formed of a semi-permeable flexible, resilient, elastic or viscoelastic material. Some of these materials may have a time dependent deformation quality that dissipates some mechanical energy; thus, there is a viscoelastic quality to the material in some of these examples. Therefore, bag structure 100 and fixation component 130 may be compressed, to facilitate implantation in an annulus fibrosis cavity using a delivery device, such as a catheter or the like. Once inserted into the intervertebral space, bag structure 100 and the fixation component 130 may be released from the delivery device, so that it returns to its relaxed unstretched state. Implantation of the bag structure will be discussed in more detail below.
In one embodiment, fixation component 130 of bag structure 100 may be formed of an immunologically inert material that is compatible with the environment found within a mammalian body, and in particular, within an intervertebral disc. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, the immunologically inert material does not induce any significant response by the immune system when the structure is implanted into a subject. Fixation component 130 may be formed of one or more materials, including in some embodiments, one or more porous materials. In addition, outer body 110 of bag structure 100 may be formed from one or more layers of material such as a layer to reduce leakage and/or a layer for fixation. In addition, the shape of the bag structure 100 as viewed from the top may be circular, oval, or other shapes that may fit the shape of the intervertebral space. In addition, the implant may include an eccentricity ratio of about 1.0 to 2.0 in the transverse plane of the disc space, or, in alternative embodiments, may include an eccentricity ratio of about 1.0 to about 3.5.
In one embodiment, fixation component 130 may be formed of one or more different materials, which exhibit porous properties. That is porous material of fixation component 130 that induce ingrowth of cellular material such as bone ingrowth as discussed previously. In addition, fixation component 130 may be coated with an agent. For example, an agent for coating fixation component 130 may include a biological agent capable of increasing the likelihood of inducing ingrowth of physiological components. For example, calcitonin or other biological or non-biological agents may be used as agents to coat fixation component 130.
Structural Bag
In some embodiments, any structure such as a bag structure or fixation member of the present invention including bag structure 100 may be formed of one or more different materials, which exhibit semi-permeable, flexible, resilient and/or elastic properties. These materials are discussed in the following paragraphs. In one example, the material of bag structure 100 is such that it is capable of being easily stretched, expanded or compressed, and then resuming its former shape or close to its former shape (U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/201,837, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety). In one embodiment, a bag structure 100 may be formed from a woven or non-woven polymeric fiber material, such as, an aramid material (e.g., Kevlar™, Nomex™, Twaron™, etc.), a polyester fiber material, an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fiber material, a nylon fiber material, a cellulose fiber material, a polyurethane fiber material, or a polyacrylonitrile based fiber material. In another embodiment a bag structure made of woven material may have a dome shape to the top and/or bottom part of the bag. In accordance with this embodiment, a dome of the bag can be thick and resilient in order to ease transition of the adjacent natural environment and an implant device. In some embodiments the polymeric fiber material may be woven or configured into a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional fabric configuration. In accordance with these embodiments the weave may be a honeycomb weave. The weave pore size may vary as a function of fabric density.
In another embodiment of the present invention, bag structure 100 may be made and/or formed from a metallic material, such as nitinol, stainless steel (e.g., heat—treated PH 17-7 stainless steel fabric) or the like. In still other embodiments, bag structure 100 may be made and/or formed from metallic fibers woven into a fabric-type material. In some embodiments, the fabric-type material may be a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional fabric configuration.
In further embodiments, bag structure 100 may be made of a combination of materials. For example, one combination might be a combination of a polymeric fiber and a metallic material; e.g., an aramid material (e.g., Kevlar or the like) and a metallic material (e.g., nitinol, stainless steel).
In another embodiment of the present invention, bag structure 100 may be made of a semi-permeable, flexible, composite material, such as a composite of an elastomeric or hydrogel matrix material and a polymeric fiber, a metal fiber or wire, or a ceramic fiber. Examples of suitable matrix materials that may be used to form bag structure 100 include, but are not limited to, a natural or synthetic polymer matrix material, an elastomer, a flexible polyolefin polymer, an elastomeric matrix material, or a hydrogel material.
Discussed above are various examples of classes of materials that may be used to form bag structure 100 as well as other structures of the present invention. Other specific materials that may be used to make bag structure 100 include, but are not limited to, polyaramid fibers, such as Kevlar 49, Kevlar 149- or the like, ultra high molecular weight, highly oriented, highly crystalline polyethylene (e.g., Dyneema or Spectra 900 or Spectra 1000), polyester fibers, such as Dacron, silk fiber, elastin fiber, elastomeric materials (polyurethane or other thermoplastic elastomer), fused PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene), expanded PTFE of generally high tenacity fibers or other high strength woven or non-woven fibers or fabrics. It is also contemplated that any embodiment of the present invention may be accompanied by vertebrolasty to increase the strength of any weakened vertebrae including but not limited to disease, aging or injury.
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In accordance with some embodiments of the invention, any of the structures such as bag structure 200, and in particular, fixation member 240 is formed of a rigid material or a flexible material as detailed previously. In other embodiments, fixation layer 230 and fixation member 240 may be attached to upper and lower surfaces 275,270 of a bag structure (265 depicts an optional bag axis). Fixation member 240 may be attached using an interfacing layer 220 such as a polymer interfacing layer as discussed. Fixation member 240 may be attached to fixation layer 230 where fixation layer 230 may be in contact with interfacing layer 220. Alternatively, fixation member 240 may be optionally coated with an agent such as an agent to induce bone ingrowth. Examples of agents for inducing bone ingrowth might include but are not limited to cellular components such as growth factors, other proteins, matrix material, gel material or other known agents.
In addition, fixation member 240 may be a retainer made of a biocompatible material and may include but is not limited to a rivet, a brad, a screw, spike, dowel, pin or a combination thereof. In another example, fixation member 240 may be used to hold layers together such as fixation layer 230, interfacing layer 220 and outer body 210 depicted in
In some embodiments, it is contemplated that any component in the present disclosure may be made of a flexible material as discussed previously. With this in mind, the later prosthetic implant structure having fixation member 240 may have a time dependent deformation; thus, there is viscoelastic quality to the material in some of these examples. Therefore, bag structure 200 having fixation member 240 may be compressed, so that it may be implanted in an intervertebral disc space cavity using a delivery device, such as a catheter, stylet or the like. Once inserted into the intervertebral space, bag structure 200 having fixation member 240 may be released from the delivery device, so that it returns to its relaxed state. Alternatively, bag structure 200 having fixation member 240 may be placed into an intervertebral space using, for example, a pair of forceps or other known method for placement.
In one embodiment, fixation member 240 may be positioned on top 275 and on bottom 270 of the bag structure to increase the likelihood of contact of fixation member 240 with vertebral bodies (see
One advantage of fixation member 240 or fixation layer 230 is gross relative motion may be reduced between an implant device and vertebral endplates and reduction of this motion may increase support in transverse shear loads. In addition, device 200 is capable of being reduced in size and implanting the device may occur with less surgical trauma.
Surveying and Sizing
It is contemplated that any one of the prosthetic implant structures disclosed herein may be introduced in a similar fashion as described for bag structure 100 or may be introduced using other known methods in the art. In addition, it is contemplated herein that any known method for assessing a cavity or estimating a size needed for an implantation structure may be used for any embodiment of the present invention. In some embodiments, once the nucleus is removed in preparation for implantation of a prosthetic device, a deployment device may be used to assess the cavity condition prior to introduction of any implant structure. For example, a balloon catheter may be introduced to the cavity and filled with an agent such as a contrast solution and the area viewed with an instrument such as an X-ray, c-arm, intraoperative CT-scan or the like. A healthcare professional may view the cavity to assess whether the area is ready for the insertion of the prosthetic implant or requires additional preparation. It is contemplated that any sizing device known in the art may be used to assess the size and dimensions of an implant device needed for disc replacement.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, once the nucleus material is removed, a delivery device (e.g., a cannula or other catheter device) may be used to introduce bag structure 100 having a fixation component 130 (see
In other embodiments, a balloon device (e.g., balloon catheter device) may be used to deploy bag structure 100 within the disc nucleus region. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, during a balloon catheter delivery procedure, a balloon catheter is used to place bag structure 100 within the disc nucleus, and then a balloon is inflated within the bag structure 100, causing the compressed bag structure to expand to its original or close to original shape. In one embodiment, bag structure 100 having a fixation component 130 may be deployed using a balloon catheter such that deploying the bag may position the fixation component of the bag near or in close proximity to the vertebral bodies. In another embodiment, deploying bag structure 100 having a fixation component 130 can position the fixation component in direct contact with the vertebral bodies. In one example, the fixation component 130 is coated by an agent such as a biological agent for example, calcitonin or the like. Once bag structure 100 is expanded, the balloon is deflated and then removed.
In some embodiments, an interior implant material and/or structure may be placed into a cavity 280 of any bag structure (see
In yet another embodiment of the present invention, an interior implant structure may include a structure capable of being fed into an opening in the bag structure such that the bag cavity may be fed the interior implant until the bag cavity is substantially filled. Then, the remaining interior implant structure is severed from the implanted portion. Then, the bag opening may be sealed to reduce escape of the interior implant.
Different delivery devices and/or methods may be used to insert the interior implant into the bag structure, and the delivery devices and/or methods used may differ depending on the type of implant material or structure used. After the interior implant material and/or structure is placed within bag structure 100, opening 120 of bag structure 100 then may be sealed or closed, thus reducing extrusion of interior implant material and/or structure from within a bag structure. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, any sealing or closing process and/or device may be used to seal the bag structure, such as suturing, clamping, tying, using a single directional opening valve or the like.
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In one embodiment, implant structure 700 may be combined with a membrane-like component 910 to provide an intervertebral implant 900 depicted in
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In one embodiment, interior implant structure 1000 may be inserted into a bag structure (e.g., bag structure 100) located in the intervertebral cavity using an external delivery device, such as a cannula, a catheter, or other suitable delivery device. In accordance with one embodiment, a delivery device may be inserted through holes 1040 in sinusoidal-shaped structures 1005, and then the structures may be stretched along the delivery device to reduce the height or amplitude of the sinusoidal-shaped devices, as discussed above. Once the height of the structure is sufficiently reduced, it may be positioned or placed within the internal cavity 280 of bag structure 100, for example, through opening 120 in bag structure 100. Once inside a bag structure, interior implant structure 1000 (i.e., sinusoidal structures 1005) is released from the delivery device, which will allow structures 1000 to relax and return back to or near its original shape, thus filling the bag structure and at least a portion of the disc cavity regions.
In some embodiments, a coating agent may be applied to a structure (e.g., bag structure 100) and/or an interior implant structure (e.g., interior implant structure 1000). In one embodiment, the coating agent may include one or more of hydrogel, a curable biomaterial that changes states once introduced to the intervertebral disc region (e.g., by chemical or heat promotion), elastomers (e.g., thermoset and thermoplastic), polyolefins, therapeutic agents (e.g., anti-bacterial or anti-fungal agents or biological agents). Biological agents may include, for example, tissue extracts, cells (e.g., bone derived cells), growth factors (e.g., platelet derived growth factor (PDGF)), proteins (e.g., the hormone calcitonin) or genes (e.g., nerve growth or bone growth promoting genes).
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The foregoing discussion of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to limit the invention to the form or forms disclosed herein. Although the description of the invention has included description of one or more embodiments and certain variations and modifications, other variations and modifications are within the scope of the invention, e.g., as may be within the skill and knowledge of those in the art, after understanding the present disclosure. It is intended to obtain rights, which include alternative embodiments, including alternate, interchangeable and/or equivalent structures, functions, ranges or steps to those claimed, whether or not such alternate, interchangeable and/or equivalent structures, functions, ranges or steps are disclosed herein, and without intending to publicly dedicate any patentable subject matter.
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- Looney Tunes Theatrical Cartoon Series
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- Distributed by: Warner Bros.
- Cartoon Characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd.
- Originally Released in 1991.
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- Running Time: 4:58 minutes.
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A huge cinema is built on top of Bugs home, and as Bugs investigates, Usher Elmer Fudd tries to evict him from the theater. Meanwhile, Daffy Duck slips into the theater without paying and- to cover up his own crime- continues to direct Elmer's attention to Bugs. Includes the famous bubble gum rap!
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State of the Rays: Rays need big series against Boston
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Everybody wearing Rays gear tonight at Legends on 2nd Street in Long Beach gets a free beer. It's our win or weep party.— Joe Maddon (@RaysJoeMaddon) September 4, 2013
Win or lose, the Rays would booze.
Kudos to Maddon for drawing from his past to hold a "Win or Weep" party in Long Beach, Calif., following Tampa Bay's 7-1 victory over Los Angeles last Tuesday. The idea is clever, one that promises a good time no matter the outcome. (Who can argue with that?) Maddon told the Tampa Bay Times about "win or weep" dances held after high school football games when he grew up in Hazleton, Pa. Fortunately for the Rays, the party last week included positive vibes after a five-game losing streak became history.
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Kevin Garnett (sick, adductor) out against Heat
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The Celtics will not have Kevin Garnett available as they try to end the 22-game winning streak of the Heat on Monday night at TD Garden. The Celtics made the announcement just over an hour before their game against LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the Heat, who with a win on Monday night will establish sole possession of the second-longest winning streak in NBA history.
Doc Rivers confirmed the decision about 45 minutes before the game but said the actual reason for Garnett missing the game is not the adductor strain but rather flu-like symptoms. Garnett reported to the Garden for the game but was told by Rivers to go home and not play Monday. Rivers said Garnett would have played if he were not sick.
Rivers said Garnett will travel with the team as it begins a three-game road trip in New Orleans on Wednesday night.
Only the 1971-72 Lakers, with a 33-game streak, would have a longer one in league history.
Garnett suffered a strained adductor (groin) in his left leg last week and missed Saturday's win over the Bobcats. This means the Celtics will not have Garnett or Jared Sullinger (back surgery) for their rematch of the double-overtime game won by the Celtics on Jan. 27 at the Garden. Both Garnett and Sullinger played in the game.
Garnett did not practice on Sunday and was not at the team's shootaround Monday morning in Waltham.
For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
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