(HealthDay)—Adolescent patients are more satisfied with surgery for lumbar disc herniation than younger or older adults, according to a study published in the June 1 issue of The Spine Journal. Tobias ...

Researchers randomly assigned 554 patients with lumbar disc herniation and a large annular defect to undergo either lumbar microdiscectomy alone or with an additional bone-anchored annular closure ...

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 ...

Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a rare but devastating neurological condition arising from compression of the lumbosacral nerve roots. Most commonly, lumbar disc herniation is implicated as a primary ...

Lumbar disc herniation refers to the condition in which one of the discs in the lower back (lumbar spine) protrudes or ruptures. The lumbar spine consists of a stack of bones called vertebrae ...

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Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However, in 2018 ...

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 ...

A 16-year-old boy, who had lumbar disc herniation, was treated through an endoscopic spine surgery at a private hospital. According to a press release, lumbar disc herniation is a condition in which ...

2. CPT 49496 (Repair, initial inguinal hernia, full term infant younger than age 6 months, or preterm infant older than 50 weeks postconception age and younger than age 6 months at the time of surgery ...