The existence of specialised structures that allow a continuous exchange of CSF between different anatomical compartments at ...

After a yoga injury led to slipped discs, a U.K. woman is struggling with symptoms of early cauda equina syndrome, a spinal ...

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Learn the critical warning signs that distinguish between ordinary neck pain and potentially serious conditions requiring immediate medical attention.

‌Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get ...

The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many ...

and discs of the cervical spine of the neck. Neck arthritis is a common condition, affecting more than 85% of people over the age of 60. Neck arthritis can cause neck pain, stiffness, tingling, ...

The NHS undertakes almost 2,000 operations to remove and replace neck discs each year. Known as anterior cervical discectomy ... brain and the top third of the spine. It showed I had a prolapsed ...

The Prestige® Cervical Disc (Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Memphis, TN) received FDA Premarket Approval (PMA) on July 16, 2007. The ProDisc-C® (Synthes Spine Inc., West Chester, PA) received PMA ...

The likelihood of lumbar spinal stenosis increases during the fifth decade of life and ranges from 1.7% to 8% in the general population.9 Surgical treatment focuses on a patient’s pathological anatomy ...

Endoscopic spine surgery is poised to ... in treating spinal stenosis and achieving disc space preparation in the case of fusions. Endoscopic approaches also enable us to preserve more of the facet ...

He also serves on committees for the Epilepsy Foundation of America and the American Epilepsy Society and specializes in cervical, thoracic and lumbar complex surgery. Luke Macyszyn, MD: Dr. Macyszyn ...