The place where they meet is called the lumbosacral joint, or L5-S1. Above and below each vertebra is an intervertebral disc. The disc serves as a shock absorber between each lumbar bone. It also ...

AN entrapment neuropathy of the ilioinguinal nerve can cause pain and disability ... A low-back derangement of variable intensity. Though the lumbosacral area may be involved, there is an upper ...

A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...

The study tested pain reduction in patients with a condition called lumbosacral radiculopathy, caused by a pinched nerve in the spine. It has no specific approved treatments, and is commonly ...

Introduction: Compression of the nerve root by a lumbar disc herniation can cause radiating pain in the lower limbs, and the nerve root decompression treatment may leave some patients with motor ...

The LION technique involves the surgical implantation of electrodes on lumbosacral nerves to stimulate paralyzed muscles. Recent findings have demonstrated significant improvements in mobility, sexual ...

Colonic peristalsis that promotes defecation is controlled by several subtypes of enteric neurons that reside in the myenteric plexus that is located between the longitudinal and circular muscles of ...