In more severe cases, surgery may be necessary ... The overall prevalence of diagnosed spinal degenerative disease in the ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, 8.2% of American adults have chronic severe back pain. Sometimes, the pain ...

The term scoliosis comes from the Greek word skolios, meaning curved or crooked, aptly describing the medical condition in which the spine curves sideways, often in an S or C shape.

such as when a disk herniation impinges the spinal cord or if there is severe weakness in an extremity, like foot drop.

In a paper published in JOR Spine, an open access journal of the Orthopaedic Research Society, researchers looked at patients with and without lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis to ...

Lower back surgery represents a life-changing decision that demands careful consideration. While many view surgery as a ...

Compared with changes seen in the normal population (non-athletes) as described in the literature, disc degeneration defined by the above criteria was found to be significantly more severe in these ..

Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a clinical condition of upper motor neuron lesion signs, that is confirmed with advanced imaging demonstrating compression of the spinal cord in the cervical ...