The muscles of the lower back help stabilize, rotate, flex, and extend the spinal column, which is a bony tower of 24 vertebrae that gives the body structure and houses the spinal cord. The spinal ...

Time and again, Dr. Scott Gingold would see a patient and wind up sketching a spine in order to explain his proposed method of correction. Now the neurosurgeon has abandoned his ad hoc artwork. He ...

People with lower back problems are more likely to have a spine similar in shape to the chimpanzee, our closest ape relatives. A lesion which forms in the disc between the bones of the spine is the ...