The lumbosacral joint represents where the lumbar and sacral spine adjoin. L5-S1 is vulnerable to misalignment and injury. It can also be the site of a disc herniation or a spine disorder called ...

MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more. MRI is a noninvasive diagnostic tool that uses radio waves and a magnetic field to produce detailed ...

Contraindications. Contraindications to lumbar chymopapain chemonucleolysis include allergy to papain or papaya, cauda equina syndrome, disc migration, central or lateral recess stenosis ...

Disc height reduction was also found to be most common at the L5/S1 level. However, the most common height reduction was only mild. A similar trend of increased prevalence of disc herniation was ...