Your backbone, or spine, is made up of 26 bones called vertebrae. In between them are soft discs filled with a jelly-like substance. These discs cushion the vertebrae and keep them in place. As you ...

Herniated disc is said to occur when the intervertebral disc between the two vertebrae of the spine protrudes or herniates into the spinal canal and compresses the spinal nerves that travel through ...

What kind of exercise is good for your back or wll not cause re-injury after a non traumatic dicectomy. I need to get fit and do not know what is allowable after a L4 herniated disc surgury Answer::Hi ...

This week we are going to discuss the intervertebral disc derangement of the lumbar spine. This is a very common and very painful condition which can affect both the back and/or leg. The ...

Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Afyon, Turkey, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey and Yeditepe University Faculty of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an award-winning study, researchers from India concluded that the endplate junction — rather than the anulus ...

Researchers randomly assigned 554 patients with lumbar disc herniation and a large annular defect to undergo either lumbar microdiscectomy alone or with an additional bone-anchored annular closure ...

A single spinal injection was given to 154 patients in the ESI group of an observational study from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). They were compared with 453 patients who did not ...