It is mostly used to correct severe spinal stenosis or a herniated disk that hasn't had effective treatment by other means. Generally, other treatments are tried first. Physical therapy may be used to ...

We've spent thousands of hours testing the best office chairs on the market, and one term you'll find scattered throughout our top reviews is "lumbar support." We often explain how a chair is a ...

Credit: Getty Images Researchers determine the effectiveness of minimally invasive lumbar decompression in ... pain in a location far from the site of treatment. Our results showed that it can ...

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a prevalent condition that severely impacts patients' quality of life and work capacity. Traditional surgical treatments like laminectomy, while effective, involve ...

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The study was performed as part of a multicentre randomised controlled trial on the treatment effect of caudal epidural injections. [19] Eligible patients with suspected chronic lumbar ...

Chou D [29] 2011 To compare the effectiveness and morbidity of interspinous-device placement versus surgical decompression for the treatment of lumbar spinal ... decreased disc height, and ...

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 ...