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 ...

Lumbar radiculopathy is inflammation of a nerve root in the lower back that causes symptoms in the back and down the leg. Radiculopathy is pain and other neurological symptoms caused by the pinching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posteriorly, the bony arch encircles the spinal canal (Fig 1). It is composed of transverse processes, facet joints, two pedicles, two laminae, and a spinous process. In the lumbar spine, the bony ...

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has emerged as a pivotal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique for the assessment of microstructural changes in nerve roots affected by lumbar disc herniation. By ...

A 72 year-old woman presented with progressive pain, weakness and sensory loss in the left leg. Her examination showed weakness of ankle and toe dorsiflexion as well as ankle eversion on the left.

Pain can be caused in any part of the body. When there is some dysfunction or problem in any organ or functioning, then pain occurs. Some pains are very general and can go away with time but some can ...