Keeping a healthy body weight is very important for your overall health, especially when it comes to your spine health. Having excessive weight, mainly around your midsection (abdominal obesity ...

Eds L G F Giles, K P Singer. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000. ISBN 7506-4789-2. Understanding thoracic spine pain is complex and demands the sharing of ideas and knowledge to improve the ...

In a normal, healthy spine, the five lumbar vertebrae stack ... Another reason why the lumbar bones are larger than the cervical and thoracic vertebrae is that they must be large and strong ...