One day, everything is fine. The next day, you wake up to a radiating pain in your spine every time you cough, sneeze or ...

Nobody wants to find themselves involved in a car accident, let alone injured by one. An unfortunate truth of the road, ...

Lumbar disc herniation refers to the condition in which one of the discs in the lower back (lumbar spine) protrudes or ruptures. The lumbar spine consists of a stack of bones called vertebrae ...

It can lead to pain, numbness, and weakness in your back, legs, and arms. Often you can relieve a herniated disk with rest, pain relievers, and physical therapy. But if your symptoms don't get ...

Microdiscectomy is performed with an operating microscope through a smaller incision than open discectomy and has become the standard surgical procedure for lumbar disc herniation. Sometimes a ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite ... A similar trend of increased prevalence of disc herniation was noted with more caudal levels. At the L5/S1 ...