Doctors Matthew Prevost and Mark Prevost II, board-certified and fellowship trained orthopaedic spine surgeons with Alabama Back Institute, are on the forefront of cutting-edge technology advancements ...

This curve helps keep the discs and muscles in proper alignment. The lumbar spine rests upon the sacrum. The place where they meet is called the lumbosacral joint, or L5-S1. Above and below each ...

If your child is the one having the lumbar puncture, they may have intravenous (IV) sedation at this time. The spinal tap takes about 15 minutes, plus recovery time. Your lower back will be cleaned ...

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.

A neurosurgeon and spine surgeon in Naples, Fla., is working on a breakthrough in spinal fusion surgery, according to a Dec. 16 report by WINK. Mark Frenkel, MD, a surgeon at Neuroscience and Spine ...

The patients were randomly assigned to a group. Significant improvements in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury The recovery of motor functions in the hand-arm muscles of the patients was ...

Lumbar lordosis was assessed using a standard lumbar lateral radiograph by calculating the angle formed between the tangents of the upper endplates of the L1 and S1 vertebrae (12) (Figure 2A). a: ...

This picture may mimic common conditions such as lumbar ... or L5-S1 vertebral levels. Between fusion and resection of transverse segments, fusion is proposed to have several advantages although both ...

Pressure ulcers send inflammatory signals throughout the body which may also interfere with healing processes directly at the spinal cord injury site, thereby blocking neurological recovery ...