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, ...

Back pain may disrupt daily living by making it difficult to enjoy hobbies or simply carry out simple chores Rest or treatment may help with some back discomfort but if the pain persists or becomes wo ...

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Spinal duct stenosis' is a disease that causes back pain due to narrowing of the spinal canal, neuromuscular canal, or vertebral space in the center of the spine, which is the space where nerves pass ...

PITTSBURGH — It’s time to fall back. On Nov. 3 ... If you feel any of these symptoms for longer than two weeks, Roecklein added, that’s the time you should seek medical help.

Radiologists were able to reach "nearly perfect" diagnoses for lumbar spine MRIs if they get patent-reported symptom information, according to an Oct. 29 study in Radiology. Four things to know: 1.

Stenosis is the narrowing of either the spinal canal or the neural foramina ... The condition may not always cause symptoms, but the symptoms can include lower back pain, numbness, tingling, and ...

After reading the publications 7 papers fulfilled the inclusion criteria, and 60 papers were excluded because they did not report on any quantitative radiological sign of lumbar spinal stenosis.

For patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, current guidelines recommend routine clinical surveillance every 6 to 12 months. Data from ...

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