It is presumed that muscles and tendons are more susceptible to injury as they age, but it is not clear why injuries to soft tissues with an L5 and S1 nerve supply have such a strong correlation with ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis self-care strategies including regular exercise, posture changes, and adopting healthy habits can help relieve back pain caused by narrowing spaces in the spinal canal. Lumbar ...

The use of facet median nerve branch radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae is common but more randomized, double-blinded control studies are needed in this area.

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 ...

Although a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) can measure spinal fluid pressure, continual intracranial pressure monitoring over 24 hours or more may be more appropriate for diagnosis when your doctor wants ...

After reading the publications 7 papers fulfilled the inclusion criteria, and 60 papers were excluded because they did not report on any quantitative radiological sign of lumbar spinal stenosis.

The lumbar spine connects the torso to the pelvis and allows the body to bend, flex, and twist around the torso. In most cases, there is plenty of room inside the bony portion spine for the spinal ...

arthritis of the spine, disc herniation, spinal stenosis, zygapophyseal joint pain, vertebrogenic pain, sacroiliac joint pain, and other degenerative conditions of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar ...

8 The needle tip is usually placed under fluoroscopic guidance to enable selective ablation of sensory nerve branches that supply facet joints, sacroiliac joint or other structures that comprise the ...