The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for ...

Lumbar refers to the lower portion of your back, a term used because these joints are located behind each vertebra or spinal column bone. Like other joints, such as the knee joint, the lumbar ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people ... This procedure, called percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression (PILD), removes part of ...

Cancers that spread to the spine move to the bone marrow of the vertebral column by way of blood vessels. Spinal cord compression can also occur through direct tumor extension, which is frequently ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...