Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared ... A similar trend of increased prevalence of disc herniation was noted with more caudal ...

University Hospitals is now offering endoscopic spine surgery for patients needing treatment for back pain due to herniated discs in their spine. Xiaofei (Sophie) Zhou, MD, completed ...

All participants had radicular signs secondary to lumbar disc herniation, and received either discectomy or microdiscectomy. After surgery, patients were allocated to receive early comprehensive ...

The lumbar curve sweeps forward ... the L5-S1 junction is often the site of a problem known as spondylolisthesis. Disc ...

Microdiscectomy surgery, also known as microdecompression surgery, is a surgical procedure used to get pressure off a lumbar ...

Opens in a new tab or window FDA advisors largely supported the regulatory approval of condoliase for nerve pain associated with lumbar disc herniation (LDH) if it can be targeted to the right ...

Thus, a left L5-S1 disc herniation compresses the left S1 nerve ... Although most recover without surgery, patients with large midline lumbar HNPs may suffer significant neurological impairment.

Data from two out of three positive studies faced the U.S. FDA’s Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee as members examined the package submitted by Seikagaku Corp., of Tokyo, for ...