Lower back pain? You may have heard your practitioner mention something about your L4-L5 spinal segment. The lower back ...

Pain from L5-S1 is typically treated with ... The other is the area just above, called L4-L5. In the low back, the L5-S1 ...

This review discusses use of RFA for back pain including facetogenic pain, including cervical and lumbar pain due to sacroiliac ... articular process. For the L5 dorsal ramus, the target is ...

Spinal stenosis usually presents with pain radiating beyond the back to the buttocks, thighs or lower legs. The pain is worsened with extension of the lumbar spine (eg, standing or walking) and ...

and to see whether imaging clarifies the cause of chronic radicular pain. Methods A total of 116 patients referred with symptoms of lumbar radiculopathy lasting more than 12 weeks and at least one ...

Methods: Twenty two elite rowers were recruited: 13 reported previous low back pain, five current low back pain ... axial scans were obtained at the level of the L4–5 and L5–S1 disc interspace to ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes ... It was most common at the L5/S1 level, and, of the abnormal group, 36% (n = 11) showed the most ...