A 57-year-old man was referred by his family physician to our spine clinic for assessment of left-sided leg pain of six months’ duration. His history was significant only for a spontaneous onset of ...

Dr. Carragee and colleagues studied the progression of disk degeneration over a 10-year period using a prospective cohort study. Fifty-seven patients with low back pain underwent a 3-level lumbar ...

Axial MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T2 weighted image at the L4 level. On this view centered over the L4-L5 disk, one can see well the cauda equina surrounded by CSF (note that CSF is bright on ...

Tiger Woods announced Saturday that he has another surgery on his back. The 15-time major champion posted on social media that he underwent an L4-L5 disc replacement surgery on his lumbar spine. The ...