Recently, Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) in Meeker, started ...

Beside them qualitative parameters, e.g., disc protrusion or hypertrophic facet joint degeneration, are used to describe abnormalities in the lumbar spine. Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes compression of the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. Resulting pain and numbness (in the hands, arms, legs, and/or feet) can vary depending ...

Lumbar degenerative diseases encompass various conditions ... It does not address the question of “how severe” the disc herniation and spondylolisthesis subtypes are or provide more precise ...

Study participants with vertebral fractures, particularly those with severe fractures, were associated with worsening facet ... Both vertebral fractures and degenerative spinal conditions, such as ...

Study participants with vertebral fractures, particularly those with severe fractures ... Both vertebral fractures and degenerative spinal conditions, such as disc height narrowing (DHN) and ...

but the MRI did reveal a disc issue that must be managed and maintained. Doctors told Richardson he did not need surgery. “They say that it’s not that severe, but God’s willing, hopefully it ...

After reading the publications 7 papers fulfilled the inclusion criteria, and 60 papers were excluded because they did not report on any quantitative radiological sign of lumbar spinal stenosis.

The prevalence and impact of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) is unknown. We aimed to determine whether RVD assessed by echocardiography in routine ...