If you're an office worker, you probably already know that sitting all day, everyday is bad for your general health. Unfortunately, between long hours grinding for a deadline, commuting to work, and ...

If you’ve been spending more time seated in front of your computer than ever before, you might want to try a lumbar support pillow. Sitting down can put a lot of strain on the spine, and may cause ...

Your backbone, or spine, is made up of 26 bones called vertebrae. In between them are soft discs filled with a jelly-like substance. These discs cushion the vertebrae and keep them in place. As you ...

Facet joints, or zygapophyseal joints, are true synovial joints in the spine that have been identified as potential pain generators. Medial branch blocks involve the injection of a local anesthetic ...

In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, it is uncertain whether decompression surgery alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion. We conducted ...

Shooting pain in your leg is often caused by problems in the lumbar spine that put pressure on nerves. Lumbar radiculopathy is often due to degenerative changes like disc herniation or stenosis, ...

Spinal stenosis is a condition in which the tunnel around your spinal cord (the spinal canal) narrows. This puts pressure on your spinal cord and the nerves around it, which can cause pain and other ...