Spinal cord stimulators are designed to address back pain and can be used as part of a patient's treatment plan.

CMS' move to establish the new ICD-10 code — M62.85: Dysfunction of the Multifidus Muscles, Lumbar Region — is part of ongoing efforts by spine surgeons who want more coding clarifications for back ...

The ugly truth about the biomechanics involved in making a proper golf swing is that it's not good for your spine, particularly the vertebrae of the low back. The two big issues: First, your ...

Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

When your mattress is saggy, uneven, or even too hard, your spine may not get the support it needs to remain in a neutral position while you sleep. A lack of support can mean lower back pain in ...

Sep. 4, 2024 — Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

The following is a summary of "Head and pelvis are the key segments recruited by adult spinal deformity patients during daily ...

This means back- and stomach-sleepers should be able to draw a line from the neck to the lumbar (lower spine) region to the knees, while side-sleepers should be able to draw a line along the ...

How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? How vertebrates coordinate the eternal tug-o-war between involuntary reflexes and seamless voluntary movements ...

A drug called bumetanide, which is used to treat edema in people, reduced this cellular swelling and resulting cell death in mice. Mice given the drug after an injury were better able to move their ...

The microdecompression surgery of Woods' lumbar spine was performed for a nerve impingement of his lower back. The procedure was performed Friday morning by Dr. Sheeraz Qureshi of the Hospital for ...