Lower back pain? You may have heard your practitioner mention something about your L4-L5 spinal segment. The lower back (lumbar spine) is a fairly complex structure. It consists of 5 vertebrates, the ...

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 ...

Recent research has increasingly focused on the morphology of these joints and their relationship with degenerative spinal conditions, such as lumbar disc herniation, degenerative lumbar ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared ... defined by the above criteria was found to be significantly more severe in these ...

Adjacent Segment Disease (ASD) and Adjacent Segment Degeneration (ASDeg) are common complications following lumbar fusion surgery ... adjacent intervertebral disc degeneration[1].