The patient is a 47-year-old female who sustained a C5/6 fracture with C6 complete tetraplegia 26 years ago. She is well adjusted socially and has a regular job. At this time, she presented with ...
A 72 year-old man noted chronic low back pain, worse with standing and walking. With prolonged standing, he would develop pain and numbness radiating down the posterior thighs and calves. Lumbar ...
Axial MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T2 weighted image at the L4 level. On this view centered over the L4-L5 disk, one can see well the cauda equina surrounded by CSF (note that CSF is bright on ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video from the Open Operating Theatre, Klaus John Schnake, MD, discusses how to perform an open, ...
Last month we discussed that the higher level (L1-L2, L2-L3 and L3-L4) lumbar disc herniations present significantly different than the more common lower level (L4-L5 and L5-S1) lumbar disc ...
Tiger Woods announced Saturday that he has another surgery on his back. The 15-time major champion posted on social media that he underwent an L4-L5 disc replacement surgery on his lumbar spine. The ...
Background Lumbar disc herniation has a prevalence of up to 58% in the athletic population. Lumbar discectomy is a common surgical procedure to alleviate pain and disability in athletes. We ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When the Charité artificial disc received FDA approval for clinical use in 2004, most spine surgeons thought ...
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