Although many patients undergo surgery for lumbar disc herniation, symptoms of disk herniation often improve with observation alone. These researchers conducted both a randomized trial of ...

often leading to severe neurological symptoms. Herniated Lumbar Disc: A condition where the soft material inside a spinal disc bulges out, potentially compressing nearby nerves. Transforaminal ...

A herniated or bulging disc in the back can be identified with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a test typically recommended ...

L4-5 in your back is a joint just like your knee or your shoulder. Herniated discs are joint injuries. The most common cause of a herniated disc is a twisting type of injury. It can be caused by a ...

Disc herniation at L5-S1 is also possible ... People with spondylolisthesis may not have any symptoms. Those who do may ...

Arthrex's technology allows surgeons to remove the herniated part of the disc through a single incision of less than one centimeter. Lumbar spine disc herniations were previously treated utilizing ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc ... showed the most degenerative change. Disc height reduction was also found to be most common at the L5/S1 level. However, the ...

Psychologic treatment should be added to conventional nonoperative treatment when no objective explanation for chronic symptoms is found. Herniation ... The threshold for spinal injury of an ...