A new Concordia study suggests that aquatic therapy for individuals with chronic low back pain can do more than strengthen the muscles around the spine. It can also have a beneficial impact on the ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that multiple sclerosis (MS) can now be accurately diagnosed with a specialized MRI scan, eliminating the need for invasive and often painful lumbar punctures.

What can result in a person experiencing pain in the lower spine? Read on to learn more about conditions that can affect the lower spine and cause pain.

Low back pain is one of the most common reasons patients see primary care doctors. To understand this condition, it’s necessary to understand the anatomy of the low back. The lower (lumbar) spine ...

Zhang et al. (2021) developed a patient-specific lumbar spine FE model and compared the IVD stress distribution with that of a normal model under flexion-extension, lateral bending, and axial rotation ...

Elderly individuals experience lower back and leg pain, often due to sciatica, due to nerve root compression, main cause of which is lumbar spondylolisthesis, a vertebral slippage. Accurate diagnosis ...

With sudden middle back pain on your left side, it’s difficult to rule out causes based on the location alone. Find related symptoms, plus treatment, here.

Until recently, bone health could be assessed only through indirect imaging methods like bone-density scans, which use a small dose of ionizing radiation to produce images of bones inside the body — ...