Myelopathy myo-lop-a-thee. Myel ['spinal cord'] opathy ['problem'] is a disease of the spinal cord. This can be distingiushed from a radiculopathy or neuropathy based on the symptoms and findings during a doctors examination. Myelopathy is therefore a descriptive term and many different disease processes can cause it.
Taekwondo is a martial art that was developed by the Koreans with tactical preferences for kicks over hands (although both are included), while Karate is a Japanese development of hand fighting which was refined in Okinawa, and likely brought there from early hand fighting in China.
The term traditional taekwondo typically refers to martial arts practiced in Korea during the 1940s and 1950s by the nine original kwans, or martial arts schools, after the conclusion of the Japanese occupation of Korea at the end of World War II.