Being bipedal – walking on our legs makes us the most advanced in evolution, but it has its own effect on our spine, our ...

In 1985, Lombardi and colleagues [7] reported the results of 47 patients who underwent surgery for spinal stenosis associated with degenerative spondylolisthesis (Table I).They noted that in ...

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

L5-S1 is vulnerable to misalignment and injury. It can also be the site of a disc herniation or a spine disorder called ...

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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 ...

Spine surgery aims to cure conditions such as herniated discs, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis and stenosis, now also thanks to minimally invasive and robotic techniques. When we speak of spine surgery, ...

Have you been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, low-grade spondylolisthesis, or mild to moderate scoliosis, or have chronic back pain that hasn’t improved with physical therapy or other ...

Walking on two legs has evolutionary benefits but also impacts the spine, causing conditions like spondylitis and spondylolisthesis. Spondylitis is inflammation due to factors like age or infection.