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 ...
Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...
The result of this literature review documents a remarkable list of various quantitative radiologic criteria applied to describe lumbar spinal stenosis. Measurement of antero-posterior diameter ...
A herniated lumbar disc can push on spinal nerves and cause severe, shooting leg pain, numbness and/or weakness. A percutaneous disc removal (PDR) can remove a portion of the herniated disc that is ...
What is LLIF/XLIF surgery? Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is a minimally invasive surgery that helps treat low back pain by removing a damaged spinal disc and fusing the pain-generating spinal ...