You can expect to be back to normal within a month or so. If your symptoms persist, you should check in with your healthcare provider; you may require other treatments such as injections or surgery ...

The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are stacked one upon another. The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as ...

What is lumbar spinal stenosis? Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back (lumbar spine). The spinal canal houses the spinal cord and nerves. The narrowing caused by ...

Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

Sometimes this natural curvature is not aligned properly or is exaggerated, resulting in one of the following conditions: Kyphosis – A rounding of the spine in the upper back. It can look like you ...

Background Studies from different Western countries have reported a rapid increase in spinal surgery rates, an increase that exceeds by far the growing incidence rates of spinal disorders in the ...

SurGenTec asserts that the OsteoFlo HydroFiber may improve patient outcomes versus the use of allograft/autograft in spinal ...

The aim of the present work was to develop and validate a procedure for the automatized generation of semi-subject-specific multi-rigid body models with an articulated lumbar spine. Individualization ...

The pathophysiology of cervical disk disease is the same as in other areas of the spine. [36] There are differences in the anatomy and biomechanics of the cervical and lumbar spine. The ...