Study design: Report of seven patients with fibrous adhesive entrapment of lumbosacral nerve roots as a cause of sciatica, whose radiographic findings were negative and who experienced relief from ...

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of the cervical spine that is most often related to aging. Radiographic evidence of ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

This patient has multilevel cervical spondylosis and cervical radiculopathy. Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative process of the intervertebral disks and facet joints. Degeneration of the ...

A 46 year-old woman presented with pain in the neck for several months followed by a rapidly progressive quadriparesis over two days. Schwannoma: (Left) T2-weighted sagittal MRI of the cervical spine; ...

A pain in the back of your thigh when running can either be related to the hamstring muscle or a combination of a lumbar disc injury and arthritic narrowing of the spinal canal, resulting in nerve ...

There are conditions that deserve special consideration because their presentation may mimic pain of neck origin. When these conditions coexist with primary neck pain, they render the separation of ...

Pain can be caused in any part of the body. When there is some dysfunction or problem in any organ or functioning, then pain occurs. Some pains are very general and can go away with time but some can ...

Archery, due to its reliance on upper extremity muscle control, can plague its participants with injuries that few outside of the sport appreciate. As a result, archers must be in top condition to ...

A 58 year-old woman developed right neck and shoulder pain followed by paresthesias down the right arm. Two weeks later, she noted her right foot was limping. On examination, her right biceps reflex ...