Herniated disk is a common condition that results from tears in the discs between the vertebrae in the spinal column. This ...

LeBron James has been diagnosed with right-sided sciatica, as reported by ESPN's Shams Charania. This condition is expected to sideline him for at least three to four weeks, with a potential return ...

To learn more about James' injury, The Sporting News spoke with medical expert Dr. Michael S. George of the KSF Orthopaedic ...

Thoracic radiculopathy is a rare cause of thoracic-abdominal or abdominal pain in subjects with poorly controlled diabetes. We present a case of a young woman with type I diabetes and a severe ...

A noninvasive MRI technique that measures volumetric changes in paraspinal muscles could transform how doctors assess nerve ...

Latin-laced explanation of lumbar radiculopathy may come tripping off the tongue but land like a lead balloon on the patient.

Correspondence to Dr Masahiro Sonoo, Department of Neurology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku 1738605, Tokyo, Japan; sonoom{at}fk2.so-net.ne.jp The myotome of a muscle is the basis ...

Vertex Pharma's non-opioid painkiller suzetrigine was unable to perform better than placebo in a phase 2 trial in lumbosacral radiculopathy (LSR), a form of neuropathic back pain, ahead of an FDA ...

Physicians performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on older adults over a three-year period, costing Medicare $1.9 billion over that time, according to new analysis from the Lown ...

What deems a spine surgery as “unnecessary” goes beyond just coding data alone, and the definition of ‘low-value’ care needs to be assessed by physicians first, some spine surgeons say. Five surgeons ...

1 Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Lower motor neuron (LMN) syndromes typically present with muscle wasting and weakness and ...