Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis can reduce their chances of surgery within one year if they perform physical therapy, according to researchers who analyzed data from the Spine Patient Outcomes ...

About 60-85% of adults will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives, and 15-45% of people experience chronic lower back pain − pain that lasts longer than three months. Lumbar ...

(Reuters Health) - Physical therapy may work as well as surgery for easing symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis, a common cause of nerve damage and lower back pain among older people, a study suggests. ...

A MedX Lumbar physical-therapy program for treatment of chronic lower back pain is being offered at Precision Fitness Exercise & Spine Center, 1413 Naperville-Plainfield Rd. The cornerstone of the ...

Feb. 24, 2004 -- Lumbar intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET) appears to be less effective than suggested by earlier studies, according to a case series of worker's compensation (WC) claimants ...

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2011), pp. 30-36 (7 pages) Objective In a German multicenter case-control study of lumbar disc diseases, we calculated risk ...

A new study by Dutch researchers has stated that there is a metabolic threshold that occurs in young adulthood, at which long-term daily physical activity becomes deleterious for lumbar bone mineral ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) comprises narrowing of the spinal canal with subsequent neural compression, and is frequently associated with symptoms of neurogenic claudication. To establish a diagnosis ...

Investigators conducted a single-centre, retrospective cohort study of 783 adult patients in Austria who underwent diagnostic LP, most on an elective basis. The main outcome was any procedural ...

Intradiscal injection of BRTX-100 during an outpatient procedure is expected to alleviate chronic low back pain arising from the damaged disc. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast ...