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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Another potential drawback is the exclusion of patients with disease initiation after the age of 45 years, which is not uncommon in peripheral SpA. It also remains unclear what degree of spinal ...