is a minimally invasive surgery that helps treat low back pain by removing a damaged spinal disc and fusing the pain-generating spinal segment (the two vertebrae above and below the disc space).
They can affect a person’s ability to walk, sleep, or engage in everyday activities. While the cause of the pain can originate in the legs, it is more often associated with the lumbar spine. This ...
Memphis, Tenn.-based OrthoSouth has opened the new OrthoSouth Spine Institute, the only mid-south spinal care practice to house a multidisciplinary team of spine specialists at a single practice.
Radiologists were able to reach "nearly perfect" diagnoses for lumbar spine MRIs if they get patent-reported symptom information, according to an Oct. 29 study in Radiology. Four things to know: 1.
The condition can occur in the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (mid back) or the lumbar spine (lower back). Cervical and lumbar stenosis are the most common forms, with lumbar spinal stenosis ...