BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The degree of lumbar lordosis and reduced lumbar mobility are regarded as important clinical features in patients with low back pain, and in lumbar disc herniation A more stiff back preoperatively in a proportion of patients has been shown to be associated with sequestered disc herniation. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether there was any correlation bet...

Introduction Many patients with extruded lumbar disc herniation require surgical intervention but some neurological symptoms of intervertebral disc herniation may often improve with conservative treatment. Patients usually try various treatment methods ranging from alternative treatments to surgery1,2. Recently, a new thermomechanical massage device has emerged, primarily in Asian countries, wi...

STUDY DESIGN Cross sectional and observational. PURPOSE To evaluate the different aspects of lumbar disc degenerative disc disease and relate them with magnetic resonance image (MRI) findings and symptoms. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Lumbar disc degenerative disease has now been proven as the most common cause of low back pain throughout the world. It may present as disc herniation, lumbar spina...

Recurrent lumbar disc herniation is a common disease process. It has been noted to occur in 5 to 15% of cases surgically treated for primary lumbar disc herniation. Outcomes in one series approached those after the initial operations, although this is not the case in the experience of most surgeons. The removal of recurrent lumbar disc herniations requires meticulous surgical technique. Great c...

BACKGROUND The observed rate of recurrent disc herniation after limited posterior lumbar discectomy is highest in patients with posterior wide annular defects, according to the Carragee classification of type II (fragment-defect) disc hernia. Although the recurrent herniation rate is lower in both type III (fragment-contained) and type IV (no fragment-contained) patients, recurrent persistent s...

OBJECTIVE Recurrent herniation following disc excision has been reported in 5-15% of patients. There have been numerous studies of recurrent disc herniation, but these have analyzed mixed patient populations. We designed this study to analyze the factors that influencing the clinical results, and efficiency of repeat discectomy for recurrent lumbar disc herniation occurring at the same level an...

OBJECTIVES A previous study identified a significant association between several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) in Indians. To validate the association between these SNPs and specific lumbar spine pathologies, we performed a case-control study in Chinese Han population. DESIGN An observational study. SETTING University Hospital in Nanning, China. ...

PURPOSE Small spinal canal dimensions play a role in symptomatic adult disc herniation, but its role in adolescent disc herniation has not been investigated with MRI. The goal of this study was to examine retrospectively if there is a correlation with dimensions of osseous spinal canal and need of discectomy in an adolescent population suffering from disc herniation. METHODS A retrospective r...