Spinal health impacts nerves, posture, and mobility. Learn ergonomic fixes, exercises, and signs of trouble to protect your backbone.

Low back pain is one of the most common reasons patients see primary care doctors. To understand this condition, it’s ...

Gently extending your spine backward while standing (also known as a sustained lumbar extension) places gentle pressure on the soft discs between lumbar vertebrae. This nudges them away from your ...

Don’t slouch or allow your spine to round while sitting. Placing your computer screen at eye level can make it easier to sit taller. Be wary of rounding your shoulders forward. Sit close to your desk ...

The lumbosacral joint represents where the lumbar and sacral spine adjoin. L5-S1 is vulnerable to misalignment and injury. It can also be the site of a disc herniation or a spine disorder called ...

This week, Calvin’s disc golf club team made a trip down to Rock Hill, South Carolina to compete — for the first time in Calvin’s history — in the college disc golf national championships. The group — ...

9 Surgical treatment focuses on a patient’s pathological anatomy and involves relieving neurological ... respectively. Finally, the lumbar disc pathology rate was 40.74%. The annual revision rates in ...

Constipation could potentially cause lower back pain. In other cases, the two symptoms may also have a shared root cause, such as fibroids, digestive conditions, or medications. However ...

Background: Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is mainly characterized by pain and neurological dysfunction resulting from rupture of the fibrous ring of the lumbar disc. The incidence of LDH is increasing ...