People with radicular leg pain have a type of neuropathic pain stemming from pressure on a lumbar spinal nerve root. The most common cause is LDH, which can lead to direct compression of the ...

Above and below each vertebra is an intervertebral disc. The disc serves as a shock absorber between each lumbar bone. It also helps support your body weight and allow movement between each vertebra.

Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back (lumbar spine). The spinal canal houses the spinal cord and nerves. The narrowing caused by spinal stenosis can squeeze the ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes compression of the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. Resulting pain and numbness (in the hands ... American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons ...

A herniated disc. Your L4-L5 disc, in between the vertebrae is the most likely to herniate.When this happens, the inner ...

BECAUSE of the interest in the recent publication on peripheral entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity, 1 it was decided to review these conditions in the lower extremity. An entrapment ...

Patients were considered eligible if they were at least 18 years old, were diagnosed with symptomatic low-back pain due to lumbar disk herniation and associated radicular pain and showed signs of ...

Dorsal root ganglion is an entity ... The use of facet median nerve branch radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae is common but more randomized, double-blinded ...

It most commonly affects the legs, and can be caused by spinal stenosis or herniated lumbar discs in the low ... can cause irritation to the nerve roots.” Below, we highlight six quality ...