Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves ...

Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) and lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) are common spine pathologies with different clinical presentations and interventions. HNP generally has an acute onset ...

Prehabilitation interventions may provide modest reductions in pain, disability, and health care costs, however, certainty of evidence was suboptimal.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS) maintains this Information Network as a resource to promote knowledge in the areas of research, health and quality ...

Paraplegia is a term used to describe the inability to voluntarily move the lower parts of the body ... The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as ...

A lumbar puncture is used to take a sample of the cerebrospinal fluid from the lower back. This fluid flows around the spinal cord and the brain, and clears waste products. Levels of certain proteins ...

The spine consists of bones called vertebrae and discs between two bones. The disc is an avascular structure – meaning it has ...