From technologies to payer systems, many aspects of spine surgery and care that promise benefits could be causing more trouble instead.

Other symptoms exhibited by spinal stenosis include: Leg Weakness: Severe nerve compression can lead to neurological weakness in the leg muscles, potentially causing difficulty or inability to ...

Spinal stenosis, characterized by the narrowing of the spinal canal, compresses neural elements and predominantly affects the lumbar and cervical spine. Symptoms include pain, numbness ...

Spinal stenosis usually presents with pain radiating ... Fibromyalgia may also present as back pain with these features. Severe, constant back pain, persisting at night, suggests the presence ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

According to the ODI scores 7 (9%), 26 (33%), and 36 (45%) had minimal, moderate, and severe disability, respectively, and 11 (14%) patients were crippled. Regarding the overall VAS scores ...

The spine's critical functionalities include movement, stability, and protection of the spinal cord while common spinal ...

Back pain is extremely common — most people will experience it at some point in their lives, and lower back pain is the ...

How to relieve it: Pain medication such as ibuprofen and physical therapy are common methods for relieving spinal stenosis pain. More severe cases may require steroid injections or a decompression ...

In aging societies, back problems have become a widespread debilitating condition. In many cases, the underlying cause is ...

The first powered randomized trial examining early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with asymptomatic, severe aortic stenosis (AS) found this strategy to ...