About
One term at a time, traced to the page it came from.
- Glossaries
- 04
- Term notes
- 10
You came with a word from your paperwork and no clear idea what it means. That is the reader these notes are built for, whether the word showed up on a scan report, a clinic note or a procedure form.
Why the pages are built around terms
A reader stuck on a paper is stuck on one line, so each page here starts from the term as it appears on that line and works outward. The aim is a plain definition, a clear line between what the term describes and what it predicts, and one question to take back to your provider.
Terms in scope
The glossaries decode the terms a reader meets on pain-care paperwork: procedure names, diagnosis words and imaging terms. They sit in four glossaries, covering steroid injections, degenerative disk disease, osteoarthritis and platelet-rich plasma injections. A page on cortisone shots, such as the Cleveland Clinic overview of cortisone shots, is the kind of published entry a term here points back to.
How each definition is traced
Every definition is written from a published page and keeps to that page's meaning. The source is named in the text, so you can open it yourself and compare. The NHS page on back pain is an example of the kind of public document a reader can check against.
Every definition carries its limit
Each entry pairs a one-line definition with a note on where that definition stops, placed side by side so neither is read alone. When the publisher qualifies a statement, the entry carries the qualification over. A point the publisher does not address is left out of the entry.
Who the pages are for
The readers these notes have in mind live in East Rutherford and across the Meadowlands, and the pages are written for that situation: a person in the area, a document in hand, and a few minutes to make sense of it.
When your term is missing
If a term on your paperwork is not covered, copy its exact spelling. The exact spelling is what lets a definition be traced to its published source, and it is what your provider will recognize. A good place to start is a published entry such as the NHS page on sprains and strains, then bring your list of terms to your next appointment.