Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Orthopedics Today Spine Section Editor Scott D. Boden, MD, said that while minimal incision decompression ...

This study included patients with symptoms suggesting lumbar radiculopathy. Patients were recruited by screening and referral from general practitioners, and those with large disc herniation obviously ...

Investigators showed that diagnosis was improved in 56% of patients with lumbar radiculopathy when a new type of oblique MRI fast spin-echo scan of the lumbar neuroforamen was used. David B. Bumpass, ...

This image represents five weeks after L4 nerve root avulsion with preconditioning crush 1 week prior to avulsion, the expression of 27 kDa heat shock protein is stronger than that in the ...

Sciatica is caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve or its roots. Any condition which causes compression of the spinal cord, or the nerve roots emerging from the spinal foramina, causes sensory and ...

A 32 year-old man presented with progressive numbness and pain radiating from the back to the anterior and medial thigh. Schwannoma: MRI Scans of the Lumbar Spine; (Left Top) T1-weighted axial; (Left ...

A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...

Dr. Amrit Misra (Neurology): A 58-year-old woman was seen in the outpatient neurology clinic of this hospital in early autumn because of hypoesthesia, paresthesia, and weakness. The patient had been ...

The study was performed as part of a multicentre randomised controlled trial on the treatment effect of caudal epidural injections. [19] Eligible patients with suspected chronic lumbar radiculopathy, ...

Five weeks after L4 nerve root avulsion with preconditioning crush 1 week prior to avulsion, the expression of 27 kDa heat shock protein is stronger than that in the avulsion-only group. Disclaimer: ...