Objectives Evidence comparing the effectiveness of surgical and conservative treatment of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation is controversial. We sought to compare short-term and long-term ...

Background and purpose Although the standard treatment for lumbar disc herniation is lumbar microdiscectomy, nucleoplasty offers a new technique with encouraging results in well selected cases.

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) affects millions globally, with annual healthcare costs exceeding $100 billion in the United States alone, driving increasing interest in minimally invasive radiological ...

A 73-year-old patient, known for a previous laminoplasty at L2–L3 and L3–L4, presented with right lumbar radiculopathy with no neurological deficit. A prior conventional MRI described a large L2–L3 ...

Iván Ulises Sámano López, Ernesto Eduardo Galván Hernández, Rafael Avendaño Pradel, José Armando Biebrich Murguía, Jorge Alberto Miranda Barrera, Thania Karina Gutiérrez Anchondo, Enrique Rosales ...

Most people recover with treatment, which includes rest ... Most occur in the lower back (lumbar herniated discs) or neck (cervical herniated discs). Seek medical attention right away if you have ...

Nonsurgical treatments for lumbar herniated discs usually consist of limited bed rest, back support and therapy. Most people suffering from a lumbar herniated disc do not need surgery. About 90 ...

5 Neurosurgical Clinic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 6 Orthopaedic Clinic Friedrichsheim, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Background: Previous ...

Pedro Gil was hardly able to move before he came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment in 2017. Gil, a resident of the Dominican Republic, had struggled with a thoracic disc herniation for 10 ...

Introduction: Compression of the nerve root by a lumbar disc herniation can cause radiating pain in the lower limbs, and the nerve root decompression treatment may leave some patients with motor ...