Epidural steroid injections demonstrated limited efficacy in reducing back pain and disability, according to a systematic ...

Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP ... Unless there is a significant or emergent neurologic deficit, nonsurgical medical management is warranted for 6 or more weeks after the onset of symptoms.

Get more medical reports from Dr. Brian McDonough ... the culprit is most commonly an issue called lumbar spinal stenosis, a ...

But a lumbar puncture on its own isn’t enough to confirm an MS diagnosis. Diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) involves several steps. One of the first steps is a general medical evaluation that ...

Multilevel decompression exhibited comparable postoperative outcomes with that of single-level decompression in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.

All had suffered from back pain for more than three months. A full medical screening examination was carried out, which included a lumbar x ray and neurological examination. Exclusion criteria were ...

Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However, in ...

Scott Blumenthal, MD, will mark 25 years since he performed the first lumbar total disc replacement in the U.S.

Regarding the article “Effects of three different training modalities on the cross sectional area of the lumbar multifidus in patients with chronic low back pain”, 1 I would like to extend my ...