The distribution of the pain is supposed to guide the surgeon as to the disc level causing the symptoms but these distribution patterns may be in error for instance in the lumbar spine in excess of 15% of patients.
Photos: North Korea holds first Workers' Party congress in 36 years. A photograph of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hangs in the enormous April 25 House of Culture during the 7th Workers' Party Congress in Pyongyang.
Take a peek inside the reclusive nation.. 1  May 10, 2016 A large portrait of former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung is surrounded by thousands in a parade in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang at the culmination of the Workersâ Party congress. Linda Davidson/The Washington Post.