Back pain is one of the leading causes of disability around the world. It affects people of all ages and can make even simple daily activities difficult. Tasks such as walking, bending, lifting ...

Patients received a single injection of 100 mg of VIA Disc NP, a micronized cadaveric disc tissue product reconstituted with saline. Under fluoroscopic guidance, the product was delivered into ...

TU/e spin-off NC Biomatrix BV is developing a biomaterial that will help to treat intervertebral disc degeneration in a non-invasive way. The new biomaterial (a cell-derived matrix gel) can be ...

Treating curvature of the spine as an adult often involves pain relief medications, exercise, or spinal injections to soothe symptoms. Surgery may only be necessary for adults with severe curvature or ...

Stanford, CA - Psychological distress is a more reliable predictor of lower back pain than imaging or diagnostic disk injection, researchers from Stanford University have shown. This could have ...

IN 1948 and 1950 Lindblom 1,2 reported his experience with diskography. In these reports he described a method of direct visualization of normal and pathologic lumbar intervertebral disks by means of ...

A herniated disk is one of the most common causes of lower back pain. Medications that can help include NSAIDs and prescription drugs such as corticosteroids. The American Academy of Orthopaedic ...