The muscles in your lumbar spine work with your abdominal muscles to move your torso and lower back. These muscles include: Above and below each vertebra is an intervertebral disc. The disc serves ...

Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to its BRTX-100 program for treating chronic lumbar disc disease (cLDD).