In this study, the agreement of different SpA-related and degenerative changes in the spine and SpA-related changes in the SIJ were tested jointly in a sample of patients with non-specific LBP only ...

This week we are going to discuss degenerative curvatures of the spine which are very similar to the scoliotic and kyphotic curves we have spoken about in the past. In these cases, the causation is ...

Resilience in the Face of Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Psychologic Morbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Women With Ovarian Cancer We retrospectively reviewed the documented ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new imaging approach to more accurately assess blood flow in the spinal ...

Adding to the already length list of reasons not to smoke, researchers have connected smoking to worsening degenerative disc disease in the cervical spine, according to research presented this week at ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

A facetectomy is a surgical procedure on the spine to remove one or both facet joints of a vertebra. Surgery aims to release pressure on a trapped nerve and reduce pain. Facets are bony protrusions ...

Over the past two decades, the search for relief from back pain led skyrocketing numbers of Americans to a costly procedure that bonds vertebrae together. But as evidence mounted that spinal fusion ...