For patients who may benefit from such scans, it's unclear whether including the spine as well as the sacroiliac joint ...

Nearly all the patients with low back pain referred by their general practitioner for a lumbar magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) had abnormal findings on the imaging, with seven in 10 showing disc ...

Dr. Carragee and colleagues studied the progression of disk degeneration over a 10-year period using a prospective cohort study. Fifty-seven patients with low back pain underwent a 3-level lumbar ...

In the lower back, there are many structures that can impinge and even damage the nerve roots of the lumbar spine (lower back). When the lumbar spine is afflicted with bone spurs, disc bulges, disc ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MRI analysis of patients who received intradiscal injections of human dermal fibroblasts (HDFs) shows significant improvement in disc height after six months. This is the ...

About 60-85% of adults will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives, and 15-45% of people experience chronic lower back pain − pain that lasts longer than three months. Lumbar ...

Lower back pain is one of the most common reasons why patients visit their primary care providers. In recent years, it is also a major cause of disability and missed days of work. There are a variety ...

Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Afyon, Turkey, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey and Yeditepe University Faculty of ...

Around four years ago, Hannah Polach, 42, began experiencing numbness and tingling in her arms that would wake her from a ...