Prehabilitation interventions prior to elective lumbar spine procedure may provide modest reductions in pain, disability, and health care costs, however, due to suboptimal certainty of evidence ...

A lumbar puncture is a test to check the fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal cord. This is called the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF. A lumbar puncture can check for cancer cells or for ...

When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ... The pain may return shortly after the procedure. However, it's more likely to ...

SAN DIEGO — Results presented here showed the use of an allograft, autograft or no biologic adjuvant had equivalent fusion rates and rates of postoperative adverse outcomes in foot and ankle ...

A few veins merge and drain into the IVC before it makes its way up to the heart ... Other veins that enter the IVC include the hepatic veins, inferior phrenic veins, and lumbar vertebral veins. What ...