Back pain is one of the most common health problems in the world. Almost everyone experiences it at some point in life. Sometimes it happens after lifting something heavy, bending in an awkward way, ...

Lumbar total disc replacement patients tended to have more facet injections following surgery compared to those having anterolateral lumbar interbody fusion, according to a study published in the ...

An injection that relieves low back pain by helping damaged spinal discs regenerate appears to have sustained benefits, new clinical trial data show. Most patients who received an injection of VIA ...

Stanford, CA - Psychological distress is a more reliable predictor of lower back pain than imaging or diagnostic disk injection, researchers from Stanford University have shown. This could have ...

IN 1948 and 1950 Lindblom 1,2 reported his experience with diskography. In these reports he described a method of direct visualization of normal and pathologic lumbar intervertebral disks by means of ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

A herniated disk is one of the most common causes of lower back pain. Medications that can help include NSAIDs and prescription drugs such as corticosteroids. The American Academy of Orthopaedic ...