Background A 32-year-old white man presented with features of inflammatory back pain, including awakening at night and morning stiffness. He had acute back pain 4 years earlier as a result of a ...

IT IS common knowledge that there is considerable difference of opinion in the medical profession concerning the methods and efficiency of the treatment of posterior protrusions of the nucleus ...

The setting and baseline data collection have been previously reported in full detail. [8] In short, data collection was part of the daily clinical routine in a secondary care outpatient department ...

Far lateral disc herniations constitute 7–12% of all disc herniations. They may be purely far lateral or extraforaminal in location, located beyond the pedicles, or may include intraforaminal and even ...

A 32-year-old white man presented to an orthopedic department with low back pain. No remarkable event had occurred before the presentation. The pain had become gradually worse over several weeks, and ...