Background Clinical examination of patients with chronic lumbar radiculopathy aims to clarify ... and tests for motor muscle strength, dermatome sensory loss, and reflex impairment.

Abbreviations AUC: Area under the curve; CI: Confidence interval; CT: Computer tomography; LR: Likelihood ratio; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; ROC: Receiver ...

A lumbar puncture is a test to check the fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal cord. This is called the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF. A lumbar puncture can check for cancer cells or for ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

In a world of sitting at desks and slumping in front of screens, back pain is known to be the most common ailment among Americans. Dr. Arthur L. Jenkins III, a board-certified neurosurgeon in New ...

Spinal stenosis exercise programs should be focused on improving spinal flexibility, strengthening the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, and general overall conditioning to improve spinal ...

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

Prehabilitation interventions prior to elective lumbar spine procedure may provide modest reductions in pain, disability, and health care costs, however, due to suboptimal certainty of evidence, ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS) maintains this Information Network as a resource to promote knowledge in the areas of research, health and quality ...

The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reversed a lower court decision on April 15, 2025, reinstating workers’ compensation benefits for an auto technician whose claim for continued ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...