Understanding the structure or anatomy of disks is essential ... bulges into the spinal canal. A ruptured disk, sometimes ...

Dr. Jeff Lehmen, a spine surgeon at SSM St. Mary's Hospital, said this assumption could be a sign of lumbar disk herniation, ...

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs approximately 95% of the time at the L4-L5 or L5-S1 level (Fisher et al., ...

Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

Lumbar herniated ... disc, osteophyte formation, or spondylolisthesis. Symptoms include leg and buttock pain with activity that is alleviated by rest or maneuvers that increase spinal canal ...