h.u-tokyo.ac.jp Objectives: Although lumbar spondylosis is a major cause of low back pain and disability in elderly people, few epidemiological studies have been performed. The prevalence of ...

where you will experience no symptoms for a period of time. The longer the disease is uncontrolled, the more likely it is for more severe damage to happen to the joints, making it more difficult to ...

Spinal meningitis is the inflammation of tissues, called the meninges, that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. It usually stems from an infection, leading to symptoms such as a stiff neck ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal ...

Although a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) can measure spinal fluid pressure ... Observing changes in the pressure of your cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure can help your care team better understand the ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

If they cause symptoms, you may need to have your gallbladder removed. The gallbladder is a small organ in the upper right abdomen, right below your liver. It’s a pouch that stores bile ...

3. "Overuse" was defined for spinal fusions and/or laminectomies if patients did not have radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, radiculopathy, radicular pain ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

Radiographic sacroiliitis, historically the cornerstone of diagnosis, can take years between 5 and 10 years from the start of symptoms to develop. New features of the Assessment of ...

Spondyloarthritis (SpA), if not diagnosed and treated early, often leads to significant morbidity. Unfortunately, diagnosis and implementation of therapy are frequently delayed, in many cases by ...