It appears to be an effective treatment for patients with DLBP who have poor outcomes after open lumbar spine surgery. A total of 12 patients who underwent RFA of the SVN for DLBP following lumbar ...

Upon presentation, her back pain had nearly resolved ... A review of her MRI scan revealed a large herniated disc at the L5-S1 level on the right, compressing the right S1 nerve root (Figs ...

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 ...

The lumbosacral joint, also called L5-S1, is a term used to describe a part of the spine. L5-S1 is the exact spot where the lumbar spine ends and the sacral spine begins. The lumbosacral joint ...

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs approximately 95% of the time at the L4-L5 or L5-S1 level (Fisher et al., ...

In the lemnisco-cortical leg, disynaptic cuneate→VPL→S1 connections excited mainly layer (L ... linking subcortical somatosensory input to cortical motor output to spinal cord. We used viral labeling, ...