A woman who had a spinal cord stimulator implanted in 2020 is suing devicemaker Boston Scientific and the FDA over complications she experienced with the device. Dena Lawler received the Spectra ...

The lumbar spine, or lower back ... When they connect, vertebrae create a channel through which the spinal cord runs. A rubbery disc sits between each vertebra, absorbing shock when people ...

Our body has a spinal cord where bundles of nerves pass from the brain to the lower back. When the cervical spine (the neck ...

Low back pain is one of the most common reasons patients see primary ... pelvic bones by an immovable joint on each side called the SI (sacroiliac) joint. The spinal cord runs vertically through holes ...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield established favorable coverage for Mainstay Medical Holdings’ Reactiv8 restorative neurostimulation for intractable chronic low back pain. Coverage went into effect ...

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 many ...

Parasympathetic nerves emerge in the brain and brainstem, and sympathetic nerves arise from the spinal cord. The most ...

Neurosurgery experts from UCSF Health will present new research and clinical findings at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, April 25-28.

"By that point, because I'd been to the doctors so much, I was feeling like a hypochondriac, because the symptoms were really ...

Compression of this part of the spine is most often the result of herniated discs, bone spurs, or spinal trauma. Lumbar myelopathy is the compression of the spinal cord of the lumbar spine of the ...

By the time you’re an adult, you usually have 24 movable vertebrae (instead of 33) and the rest of the bones are fused together. While most people have a straight spine, some people have additional ...