A 72-year-old woman with hypertension presents with a 4-month history of lower back discomfort that radiates ... The mechanism whereby compression of spinal nerve roots results in the typical ...

A new clinical trial has found that closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation can result in significant improvements to arm and ...

Lumbar radiculopathy is very common and is estimated to occur in 3% to 5% of people ... herniated discs, spinal degeneration, and narrowing of the bony canal where nerves exit your spinal cord.

If you experience one in your back, it can travel to other parts of the body and cause sharp pain, tingling, numbness, or weakness. "We have nerve roots that leave the spinal column at every level, ...

With hockey shirts decorating the wall, a favourite video game on TV and a cell phone not far away, Henry Black is everything you would expect from a 16-year-old.

The endoscope can reach nerve roots as high as the mid-lumbar spine bilaterally. When the appropriate disc level is reached, a laser optic fibre is introduced through the working channel of the ...

Housed in and around the spinal column are the discs, nerves, and connecting musculature, which may contribute to radicular pain or sensations in the legs and feet. The lumbar spine is a segment ...

Symptoms include back pain and pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness down one leg. Spinal foraminal stenosis may cause ...

Spinal stenosis ... can help to reduce back pain caused by inflammation. Injections of corticosteroids may help to alleviate the inflammation around a compressed nerve, but because these ...

A pinched nerve is an injury that occurs when a nerve is stretched too far or is squeezed by surrounding bone or tissue. In the upper back, the spinal nerve is vulnerable to injury from a variety ...