Another function of the lumbar spine is to protect lumbar nerve roots. These nerves travel from your spinal cord to your buttocks and legs. The lumbar bones create a canal where the nerves are ...

To investigate whether imaging of lumbar spinal nerves is an optimal technique to diagnose the damage of the compressed nerves and to predict the outcome of the lumbar spinal surgery.

The bone extends out from the back of the vertebra to form canals for nerves, joints for stability, and attachment sites for muscles. These parts of the spine include: Each region of the spine has a ...

The pressure on the nerves results in pain, numbness or weakness in the extremities. Cervical stenosis (in the neck) can affect the arms, legs and sometimes balance. Lumbar stenosis (in the low back) ...

While the body has 31 spinal nerves, you only have 30 dermatomes. That’s because C1 (in your neck) doesn’t provide sensory function. At the lower end, the 11 lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal dermatomes ...

Lower back pain can be caused by a variety of problems with any parts of the complex, interconnected network of spinal muscles, nerves, bones, discs or tendons in the lumbar spine. Typical sources of ...

This procedure can reduce painful compression of the spinal cord and nerves, which may result from a trauma where a vertebra is severely fractured, or when pressure created by a tumor that has spread ...

Lumbar laminectomy is a surgical procedure that is performed to alleviate persistent, often debilitating pain caused by pressure on the nerves (neural impingement), a herniated disc or a tumor on the ...