Doctors Matthew Prevost and Mark Prevost II, board-certified and fellowship trained orthopaedic spine surgeons with Alabama Back Institute, are on the forefront of cutting-edge technology advancements ...

Introduction Central lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common cause of pain, reduced function and quality of life in older adults. Current management of LSS includes surgery to decompress the spinal ...

(b) Decompression effect: It induces water loss, contraction, degeneration, and necrosis of nucleus pulposus ... It only produces overlapping images of the lumbar spine and is unable to visualize soft ...

Methods: We developed an automated and robust pipeline that generates and simulates biofidelic vertebrae and intervertebral disc finite element method (FEM ... 2024), for instance, relating certain ...

Both vertebral fractures and degenerative spinal conditions, such as disc height narrowing (DHN) and facet joint osteoarthritis (FJOA), are significant contributors to back pain and disability.

After reading the publications 7 papers fulfilled the inclusion criteria, and 60 papers were excluded because they did not report on any quantitative radiological sign of lumbar spinal stenosis.

The cervical spine is composed of seven bones (C1 – C7), which are separated from one another by intervertebral discs. These discs allow the spine to move freely and act as shock absorbers ...