These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many muscles and ligaments. The lumbar region is located between the thoracic (chest) ...

Unlike traditional spinal surgeries that require large incisions, muscle disruption, and prolonged recovery times, Dr. Melamed's muscle-sparing technique combines advanced imaging and microscopic ...

Cervical myelopathy is the most common type of myelopathy, most often caused by aging-related spinal degeneration. Thoracic myelopathy is compression of the spinal cord in the thoracic spine of the ...

Lower spine pain can develop due to sprains and strains of muscles or changes to the discs in the lower back. Conditions that affect the facet joints of the vertebrae may also cause lower spine pain.

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 ...

Spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) is a rare condition characterized by excessive growth of adipose tissue in the epidural space, leading to spinal cord or nerve root compression. We present a case of ...

cervical spinal disease and thoracic spinal disease; the corresponding ICD-9-CM codes are listed in (online supplementary appendix 1). We divided the study cohort into discectomy and laminectomy ...

The complex three-dimensional anatomy and pathology of the spine offers an excellent opportunity ... of the spatial relationships between the facet joints, the transverse processes, the pedicles ...