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 ...

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 ...

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.

This agreement is poised to significantly enhance the early detection and management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), providing clinicians with an important tool to improve patient care and outcomes.

They are usually grouped together due to their common attachment point on your femur (thigh bone). All three muscles arise from different areas of your lumbar spine and pelvic brim, but all three join ...

combined with the auxiliary examination and lumbar CT examination, revealed bilateral L5/S1 articular process hyperplasia, and the low back pain was aggravated by activity or a change in body position ...

In a paper published in JOR Spine, an open access journal of the Orthopaedic Research Society, researchers looked at patients with and without lumbar ... disc or facet joint degeneration ...

This implant and technique reconstructs the functional spinal unit and broadly addresses leg pain, back pain, and spinal instability while correcting posture and preserving freedom of movement in ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) comprises narrowing of the spinal canal with subsequent neural compression, and is frequently associated with symptoms of neurogenic claudication. To establish a ...

The development of degenerative vertebral slippage usually involves arthritis of the facet joints with loss of normal structural support . The condition occurs most often at the L4-L5 level ...

A multicenter team of researchers from New York have looked into the upsides and downsides of multilevel minimally invasive (MIS) lumbar fusion. Their work, “Diminishing Clinical Returns of Multilevel ...