Dr. Justin Grant, DO, a fellowship-trained sports medicine provider at Colorado Advanced Orthopedics (CAO), is certified in ...

The disc serves as a shock absorber between each lumbar bone. It also helps support your body weight and allow movement between each vertebra. The spinal cord is the bundle of nerve tissue that ...

Your lower back will feel the pinch if sciatica or a herniated disc is at the root of your problem. Caused by compression on the sciatic nerve, sciatica pain radiates along the lower back and ...

Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

The American study found that Ozempic more than doubles the risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), a rare condition that damages the optic nerve. In the first Danish ...

The search was confined to studies closely associated with the major topic of this review, i.e., investigating the relationship between training loads and the occurrence of back problems in athletes, ...

President-elect Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon told tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk to “sit in the back and study” amid an ongoing feud between the president-elect’s Silicon ...

Novartis AG said a new experimental medicine improved motor function in children with a form of spinal muscular atrophy ... in an advanced study. The study included children with a form of ...

A lumbar puncture (LP), which is also called a spinal tap, is a common neurological test that's done to examine the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)—the protective fluid that surrounds your brain and spinal ...

The authors of the study tested this hypothesis with dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs), a hardy and readily available cell population that produce proteins known to encourage nerve growth.