These make it easier to bend and move. When one tears or leaks, it is called a herniated disk. The injury typically occurs in the lower back or neck region. A herniated disk may also be called a ...

The state has pulled the plug on a prominent spinal surgeon’s ability to treat injured workers. Vadim Lerman, … Continued The ...

When Jim Foster, a retired basketball coach, injured his back at age 72, he faced debilitating pain that made daily ...

and spinal stenosis constricts the spinal canal and compresses nerves often in the lower back or neck. Both are often ...

The gradual degeneration of the spine often takes the form of cervical spinal stenosis, which is the narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck. Some people are born with a narrow spinal canal ...

Cervical degenerative disc disease results from spinal spondylosis and causes deterioration of the intervertebral discs of the cervical spine. Desiccation of the discs leads to collapse of the ...

Physiotherapist Feim Gashi also spoke about herniated discs in the podcast "Health First". He announced that hernias in the lower back are more common, as well as those in the cervical spine. "Disc ...

The herniated disc pushes against the spinal cord or spinal nerves and tends to cause pain in the neck or arms. This procedure removes the ruptured disc to alleviate pressure on the nerves or spinal ...

Although a herniation can occur in any section of the spine, herniated discs in the lumbar (low back) and cervical (neck) spine are the most common. Symptoms may include low back or neck pain, along ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla., May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Sean Kelly, spine surgeon at Joseph Spine Institute, is raising awareness about cervical disc replacement, an advanced surgical option that is proving ...

She also complained of pain between her shoulder blades. Herniated T1-2 Disk: T2-weighted sagittal MRI scans of the cervical and upper thoracic spine. Note the large disk herniation between the T1 and ...

The pain aggravated with tilting the head to an opposite direction. Plain X-ray of the cervical spine was unremarkable and an MRI of the cervical spine revealed a normal sagittal profile but axial ...