Facet joint pain is a common source of chronic low back pain, often resulting from conditions such as osteoarthritis. Managing this type of pain can be challenging, as it requires a comprehensive ...

Objective: To compare the efficacy and tolerability of dexamethasone-21-palmitate and mepivacaine alone and in combination in the acute treatment of facet ... complain of low back pain, which ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the narrowing of the central canal and, often, the lateral recess due to facet joint hypertrophy, thickening and bulging of the ligamentum flavum, bulging of an ...

Spinal stenosis is a complication that occurs ... called an intervertebral disc that cushions between each vertebra. Facet joints between each vertebra (called zygapophysial joints) provide ...

A CORONER has raised concerns that chiropractors aren’t required to check patient medical records after a woman’s death.

The family of a 13-year-old girl has filed a federal lawsuit against Mayo Clinic and two orthopedic surgeons, alleging they permanently paralyzed the girl after failing to stabilize her spine during ...

A young mother and gymgoer died following chiropractor treatment on her neck pain after “she felt a crack to her neck” while ...

Joanna Kowalczyk, 29, visited a chiropractor after she experienced neck pain from a gym PT session, however practitioners ...

Background Facet joints are frequently impaired in patients ... it is a comprehensive method to assess the alteration of spine [1]. Objectives We aimed to find relevant factors for lumbar FJA in axSpA ...

lumbar vertebrae, IVDs, ligaments, facet joints, and two muscle groups. Yet, geometries and muscle as well as ligament insertion points were extracted from subject-specific CT data. Second, the ...

The Minnesota Department of Health has found that about 83,000 Minnesotans a year received chronic pain procedures during a three-year period. MDH was able to conduct this analysis for the ...