The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for ...

The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are stacked one upon another. The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves ...

When Michael Kelly, director of scoliosis and spinal deformities at Rady Children's Hospital, is asked to explain how this spine-twisting disease affects adolescents differently from adults, he ...

Cancers that spread to the spine move to the bone marrow of the vertebral column by way of blood vessels. Spinal cord compression can also occur through direct tumor extension, which is frequently ...

allowing flexibility but preventing twisting of the vertebral column. In fish, the occipital processes (occipital condyle) on the back of the skull looks like the end of a typical amphicoelus centrum.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two 510 (k) clearances for implants which restore the integrity of the spine in tumor and infection cases.

Ventris Medical received 510(k) clearance for its bone graft containment technology for use in spinal fusion procedures.The Newport Beach company, specializing in orthobiologics and tissue ...