Your MRI report says that you have a herniated disc in your lumbar spine. Here is what you need to know and what your doctor should be telling you.

Last month we discussed that the higher level (L1-L2, L2-L3 and L3-L4) lumbar disc herniations present significantly different than the more common lower level (L4-L5 and L5-S1) lumbar disc ...

Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine. In a normal, healthy spine, the five lumbar vertebrae stack on top of one another in a centered alignment. While all vertebrae have approximately the same shape, ...

Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) and lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) are common spine pathologies with different clinical presentations and interventions. HNP generally has an acute onset ...

Your doctor will diagnose a herniated disc with a physical exam and, sometimes, imaging tests. With treatment, most people recover. Treatments include rest, pain and anti-inflammatory medicines, ...

A 16-year-old boy, who had lumbar disc herniation, was treated through an endoscopic spine surgery at a private hospital. According to a press release, lumbar disc herniation is a condition in ...

Background Lumbar disc herniation has a prevalence of up to 58% in the athletic population. Lumbar discectomy is a common surgical procedure to alleviate pain and disability in athletes. We ...

Ferring presents efficacy and safety data for SI-6603 (condoliase) in lumbar disc herniation at NASS 2024. ... The Spine Journal has published the results of the pivotal U.S. Phase 3 study.

Orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. John Hall of Arizona Precision Spine in Flagstaff, Arizona observes, "I appreciate that Centinel Spine continues to advance lumbar total disc replacement through the ...

The multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, comparative study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03607838) included 352 adult patients 30 to 70 years of age with confirmed lumbar ...