Centinel Spine®, LLC has announced the launch of new instrumentation for its prodisc L Lumbar Total Disc Replacement (LTDR) ...

An osteoanabolic agent should be the first choice treatment for patients at high or imminent risk for fracture, but once ...

Spinal stenosis means a narrowing of the spinal canal – a space within the spine which protects the spinal cord and nerve roots. Lumbar refers to segment of your spine that contains the five spinal ...

or other forms of compression of the spinal canal at the level of the low back (lumbar spine). The spinal cord extends from the base of the brain and enters the spinal canal – a protective space ...

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An L3-5 lumbar spine model, M0, was established via the three-dimensional finite element method. Different degrees of resection of the superior articular process of L4 were simulated via a visualized ...

Add-on code 22512 is used to report vertebroplasty performed on each additional level during the same session, regardless of whether the additional level is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, or sacral. A ...

C2), or the midcervical vertebrae (C3, C4, and C5) affects the respiratory muscles and the ability to breathe. A lower injury, in the lumbar vertebrae, may affect nerve and muscle control to the ...

What is lumbar disk disease? The vertebral column, or backbone, is made up of 33 vertebrae that are separated by spongy disks. The spine is divided into 4 areas: Cervical spine. The first 7 vertebrae, ...

Poking out from the sediment of a creek bed was the end an "unusually large" lumbar vertebra. MORE: What paleontologists learned from fossils of a 3-eyed predator that lived 500 million years ago ...