Spinal stenosis surgery helps to reopen your spinal canal, the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows ...

多年来，科学家们发现，软骨发育异常犬种容易出现椎间盘提前退化的情况，这是因为椎间盘髓核发生了软骨样化生，最终导致椎间盘钙化（Intervertebral disc calcification，IDC）。在腊肠犬中，研究发现 24 - 27 个月大时，通过 X 光片可见的钙化椎间盘 ...

Damage to the lumbar facet joints is commonly associated with this kind of chronic lower back pain. In fact, up to 45% of patients experiencing lower back pain also have issues with their lumbar ...

Figure 1. The mean HU values in three regions of interest (ROI) were measured including right psoas muscle and anterior subcutaneous fat in a soft tissue window for internal calibration, and lumbar ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to assess the location, size, and clinical significance of prostatic calcification using computed tomography (CT). They analyzed data from 5,492 patients ...

Smoking is associated with lower back pain and intervertebral disc disease, and smokers report high levels of pain compared to people ... The effectiveness of radiofrequency ablation of medial branch ...

Currently, there is no clinical therapy targeting the reversal of disc degeneration or that addresses intervertebral disc cell homeostasis.

Phaistos Disc. Credit: C. Messier/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-4.0 The Phaistos Disc, discovered in 1908 in Crete, has long been a subject of intrigue due to its undeciphered symbols arranged in a ...

Background: To analyze the therapeutic efficacy of intervertebral surgery in the treatment of multisegmental spinal tuberculosis ... Bone graft healing was evaluated using computed tomography (CT) ...

Lower back pain can be frustrating and debilitating, but understand that medical treatment for a lumbar herniated disc will depend on your specific symptoms, the duration of symptoms, and the ...

Utilizing clinical MR images, this model can qualitatively assess the degree of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration, including the evaluation of Pfirrmann grades of disc degeneration, disc ...