Your backbone, or spine, is made up of 26 bones called vertebrae. In between them are soft discs filled with a jelly-like substance. These discs cushion the vertebrae and keep them in place. As you ...

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 ...

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

Even if you don’t know exactly what a herniated disc is, it just sounds like something you’d want to avoid. That makes perfect sense, because this health issue can be pretty freaking painful—but in a ...

Few injuries are as suddenly and thoroughly debilitating as a herniated disc. If you've experienced one, you know how quickly you can go from feeling completely normal to all at once having trouble ...

One of the most common causes of lower back pain in professional truck drivers that I encounter in my clinic is lumbar spine disc herniation. In order to understand this type of injury, it’s a good ...

Study design: A case report of intraradicular disc herniation. Intraradicular disc herniation is a special type of intradural disc hernations. In this report, we present the tenth case of ...

The spinal disc is a round, multi-layered ligament that connects two vertebral bones together. The fibers of each of the layers are crossed like a basket weave and are at different angles to provide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One day, everything is fine. The next day, you wake up to a radiating pain in your spine every time you cough, sneeze or twist ...

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