New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

Spinal injections of steroids, typically near the pinched nerve, provide near immediate relief for people with nerve pain and swelling. In rare cases, surgical treatment may be needed to completely ...

3. "Overuse" was defined for spinal fusions and/or laminectomies if patients did not have radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, radiculopathy, radicular pain ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, ...

h.u-tokyo.ac.jp Objectives: Although lumbar spondylosis is a major cause of low back pain and disability in elderly people, few epidemiological studies have been performed. The prevalence of ...

If you experience severe or sudden calf pain or suddenly have trouble moving or walking, it’s time to contact a healthcare ...

A 56-year-old man who suffered from chronic back pain for over 30 years due to Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) has found relief after a successful treatment at a Mumbai hospital. Diagnosed with the ...

Radiographic sacroiliitis, historically the cornerstone of diagnosis, can take years between 5 and 10 years from the start of symptoms to develop. New features of the Assessment of ...

Spondyloarthritis (SpA), if not diagnosed and treated early, often leads to significant morbidity. Unfortunately, diagnosis and implementation of therapy are frequently delayed, in many cases by ...

where you will experience no symptoms for a period of time. The longer the disease is uncontrolled, the more likely it is for more severe damage to happen to the joints, making it more difficult to ...

The pain started in waves in my lower back and travelled down my left thigh as I worked bent over my laptop on my couch—the ...