Question: What do you feel is an overlooked issue in modern spine surgery? Justin Field, MD. Spine Surgeon of Desert Institute for Spine Care (Phoenix): I still think that cervical artificial ... you ...

The following is a summary of “Limited added value of systematic spinal cord MRI vs brain MRI alone to classify patients with MS as active or inactive during follow-up,” published in the April 2025 ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Spinal cord injury results in multiple, simultaneous sensorimotor deficits. These include, but are not limited to, full or partial paralysis of muscles below the lesion, muscle spasms, spasticity, and ...

Therefore, a comprehensive battery of sensorimotor and cognitive tests should be performed to understand how the clinical and MRI pictures are evolving during the disease progression and to establish ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MDThe lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5 ...