Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Orthopedics Today Spine Section Editor Scott D. Boden, MD, said that while minimal incision decompression ...

Sciatica is caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve or its roots. Any condition which causes compression of the spinal cord, or the nerve roots emerging from the spinal foramina, causes sensory and ...

Investigators showed that diagnosis was improved in 56% of patients with lumbar radiculopathy when a new type of oblique MRI fast spin-echo scan of the lumbar neuroforamen was used. David B. Bumpass, ...

A pain in the back of your thigh when running can either be related to the hamstring muscle or a combination of a lumbar disc injury and arthritic narrowing of the spinal canal, resulting in nerve ...

A 65 year-old man presented with a three week history of progressive paraplegia and incontinence. He had a recent diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the lung. Cauda Equina Compression: Sagittal MRI scan ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dear Dr. Roach • I am a 66-year-old female with degenerative disk disease. I have had two spinal fusions. One at age 44, at the L ...

For references, please see Appendix 1, available at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1503/cmaj.130640/-/DC1 A definitive cause cannot be determined in most patients ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 66-year-old female with degenerative disk disease. I have had two spinal fusions. One at age 44, at the L-5 S-1 level, and the other at age 64, at the L-4 L-5 level. I am being ...