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Lumbosacral Joint (L5-S1): Anatomy and Pain Symptoms
The other is the area just above, called L4-L5. In the low back, the L5-S1 junction is often the site of a problem known as ...
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Hip and Spine Positioning
This could potentially lead to a herniated disc. Hips rotate backward causing lengthened hip and lumbar extensors along with shortened hip flexors and abdominals. After long term exposure to this ...
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Lumbar Spine: Common Pathology and Interventions
Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP ... bulging of an intervertebral disc, osteophyte formation, or spondylolisthesis. Symptoms include leg and buttock pain with activity that is alleviated ...
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Treating Lumbar Disc Hernias With a Single Shot
Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However ...
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A pilot study of the prevalence of lumbar disc degeneration in elite athletes with lower back pain at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite ... A similar trend of increased prevalence of disc herniation was noted with more caudal levels. At the L5/S1 ...
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Lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration in Japanese male volleyball players belonging to the national team
Objective To identify the reason of the lower back pain, a detailed MRI analysis of disk degeneration (DD ... It was 20.8% at L1/2, 22.9% at L2/3, 16.7% at L3/4, 45.8% at L4/5, and 75.0% at L5/S1. Of ...