The lumbar spine has a slight forward curve called a lordotic curve. This curve helps keep the discs and muscles in proper alignment. The lumbar spine rests upon the sacrum. The place where they meet ...

Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

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.

These findings emphasize the importance of early intervention and preventive care among these patients. Both vertebral fractures and degenerative spinal conditions, such as disc height narrowing (DHN) ...

Trabecular bone strains may be influenced by the underlying intervertebral disc (IVD). Understanding how disc degeneration alters load distribution ... or inform the choice and placement of ...

Hundreds of children born with a degenerative muscle-wasting disease are to be offered a new drug on the NHS that can slow the deadly condition’s progression. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ...

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device. Traditionally, disk images were bit-by-bit copies of every ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MDNeck arthritis (also known as neck osteoarthritis or cervical spondylosis) is the ...

Chemonucleolysis has become an established method of producing whole organ culture models of intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration. However, the field needs more side-by ... being statistically ...