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 ...

Additional studies found disc problems at L5-S1 can lead to difficulty controlling your anal sphincter. Initial treatments ...

lineone.net Mixter and Barr in 1934 first described the herniated disc to be a cause of segmental leg ... prolapse is most prevalent between the ages of 30–50 years, and the L5/S1 and L4/5 ...

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs approximately 95% of the time at the L4-L5 or L5-S1 level (Fisher et al., 2004; Asch ...

MRI at 1.5 T of the lumbar spine revealed a large L4–L5 ... herniation will usually improve spontaneously over a period of months. A majority of patients with sciatica type leg symptoms secondary to ...

aDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland bDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University ...

3–5 Symptoms of such herniation into the anterior mediastinum include pain ... the patient remains asymptomatic and does not wish to undergo treatment. Careful follow-up is necessary to monitor for ...

We present a case report of a 33-year-old woman with back pain for several months which was resistant to medical treatment. Thoracolumbar MRI and multidetector CT showed an aneurysmal bone cyst ...

BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, arm pain — these can all be caused by herniated discs — if left untreated, it can become debilitating and lead to ...

The incidence of disc/vertebral degeneration and disc herniation was investigated at the L4-5 and L5-S1 level in lumbosacral magnetic resonans imaging of patients with and without congenital ...