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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 75-year-old male and have had pain in my buttocks down to my outside thigh muscles. My primary care doctor ordered an MRI of the lower back and referred me to an orthopedic ...

Spondylosis is a medical term for wear and tear in your spine. “It can happen in your neck (called cervical), mid-back (thoracic), or lower back (lumbar) (Image: Pexels) People often ignore issues ...

This patient has multilevel cervical spondylosis and cervical radiculopathy. Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative process of the intervertebral disks and facet joints. Degeneration of the ...

There is a very poor relationship between the severity of cervical spondylosis and symptoms, and only a small percentage of patients with radiographic evidence of cervical spondylosis are symptomatic.

Cervical spondylosis is another name for osteoarthritis in the joints of the vertebrae in the neck. This means that it is a degenerative disease where bony surfaces, in this case in the cervical ...

“It is most likely caused by age related changes in the inter-vertebral discs,” said Dr Vivek Kumar Mishra, Specialist Orthopaedics, Zulekha Hospital, Sharjah. “These inter-vertebral discs are cushion ...