In this video from Open Operating Theatre, Jens Castein, MD, from the Center for Spinal Surgery and Neurotraumatology in Frankfurt, Germany, discussed how to perform a percutaneous posterior ...

The lumbar spine is a segment of the vertebral column. It's responsible, in large part, ... The five vertebrae are designated as L1 at the top proceeding downward to L5 at the bottom.

The cordtypically terminates at the L1 ... 2001). The exiting nerve root in the lumbar spine is numbered according to the pedicle above it. For instance, the L5 nerve root passes below the L5 ...

Cost-effectiveness for risk-stratified patients isn’t necessarily better than usual care for lower back pain in the military health system, according to a study in the July 15 issue of Spine.

Disc space narrowing at disc levels L1/L2 and L2/L3, visible on lumbar radiographs, may help to identify hip pain patients whose pain originates in the lumbar spine. Menu SECTIONS.

The vertebrae of the lumbar spine are numbered L1 through L5; the “L” stands for “lumbar.” They are: L1 : This vertebra begins the lumbar spine after the thoracic spine ends.

Lower back pain is defined as pain in the vertebrae designated L1 through L5 — these comprise the part of the spine that curves inward at the base. A common reason your back may hurt is from bad ...

Note that in the patient with a tethered cord (left images) the spinal cord terminates below L5 and can be seen on the axial image at the L4 ... This results in abnormal stretching of the spinal cord ...

Axial MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T2 weighted image at the L4 level. On this view centered over the L4-L5 disk, one can see well the cauda equina surrounded by CSF (note that CSF is bright on ...

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs approximately 95% of the time at the L4-L5 or L5-S1 level (Fisher et al., 2004; Asch ...