A 57-year-old man was referred by his family physician to our spine clinic for assessment of left-sided leg pain of six months’ duration. His history was significant only for a spontaneous onset of ...

Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Afyon, Turkey, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey and Yeditepe University Faculty of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an award-winning study, researchers from India concluded that the endplate junction — rather than the anulus ...

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Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs approximately 95% of the time at the L4-L5 or L5-S1 level (Fisher et al., 2004; Asch et ...

This integrated approach, combining histological analysis and single-nucleus RNA sequencing, revealed that the senescence and depletion of nucleus pulposus progenitor cells (NPPCs) represent ...

Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a rare but devastating neurological condition arising from compression of the lumbosacral nerve roots. Most commonly, lumbar disc herniation is implicated as a primary ...

Most children and adolescents with herniated disks in the lower (lumbar) spine have some sort of malformation of the spinal vertebrae, reports a study. Herniated disks in the lumbar spine are common ...

Slipped disc is no longer limited to old age. Here's why desk jobs increase the risk, early symptoms people ignore, and how ...

OctaSeal offers a unique combination of intradiscal, anatomic placement and tubular-based insertion, avoiding the need for bone removal, defect widening, or additional nerve retraction. The implant ...