About 60-85% of adults will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives, and 15-45% of people experience chronic lower back pain − pain that lasts longer than three months. Lumbar ...
Your lower back does a lot more than you think. From helping you stand tall to letting you bend, twist, and carry, the lumbar spine is the backbone of daily life literally. But with age, wear and tear ...
The main argument identified in this appraisal for and against decompression alone in patient with lumbar spinal stenosis was whether or not instability should be treated with (instrumented) fusion ...
Luis A. Marotti, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS, Brain and Spine Surgery, Voted Best Surgeon (1st Place) Dr. Louis Marotti, a neurosurgeon with Argires Marotti Neurosurgical Associates of Lancaster says that ...
A 62 year-old man complained of pain in the back, buttocks and thighs after walking two blocks. The pain was relieved with sitting, but not standing. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: T2-weighted MRI of the ...
Background: Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is increasingly being diagnosed in persons over age 65. In 2011, 55 793 older people with this condition were treated as inpatients in German hospitals.
The management of spinal stenosis is still controversial. For mild symptoms conservative treatment seems to be the natural choice although controlled clinical studies comparing conservative and ...