(HealthDay News) – For octogenarian patients with lumbar disc herniation, unilateral laminectomy and discectomy seems safe and effective, according to a study published in the April issue of the ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Identifying and treating patients with lumbar disc herniations within 3 months of the onset ...

Your MRI report says that you have a herniated disc in your lumbar spine. This sounds scary and could be the source of your back and/or leg pain. Here is what you need to know and what your doctor ...

For patients with herniated discs in the lower (lumbar) spine, surgery leads to greater long-term improvement in pain, functioning, and disability compared to nonsurgical treatment, concludes an eight ...

Safety Ahmaad Moses was at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis last week and he'll be heading to an operating room this week ...

Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Afyon, Turkey, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey and Yeditepe University Faculty of ...

With time -- and medical help -- slipped disc pain gets better. But disc surgery is faster and works better for bad pain, a large U.S. study finds. The study shows that patients with a "slipped" or ...

Although many patients undergo surgery for lumbar disc herniation, symptoms of disk herniation often improve with observation alone. These researchers conducted both a randomized trial of diskectomy ...