A recent conversation about cortisone shots and back pain due to herniated discs inspired me to write this article. The person I was speaking with was quite misinformed about when cortisone shots are ...

Lower back pain isn’t always a slipped disc. A spine doctor explains hidden causes like sacroiliac joint arthritis, symptoms, ...

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 your back. What gives? If this story sounds familiar, you may have a ...

Like fixing a flat on the roadside, a new injectable hydrogel is showing promise as a remedy for worn-down spinal discs -- pumping them back up and relieving chronic back pain. The gel, with the brand ...

It feels like back pain comes for many of us at some point in our lives, and it’s tricky to treat. A new gene therapy, which repairs damaged discs and reduces pain, has shown promise in mouse tests.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Medicare health insurance program has decided it would not pay for a Synthes Inc. artificial disc for the lower back in patients older than 60. The ruling, dated ...

I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties, I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed ...

Disc-related back pain may one day meet its therapeutic match: gene therapy delivered by naturally derived nanocarriers that, a new study shows, repairs damaged discs in the spine and lowers pain ...

Back decompression aims to relieve back pain by taking pressure off compressed spinal discs. There are surgical and nonsurgical methods of back decompression. Nonsurgical therapy includes spinal ...

Tiger Woods underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery in his lower back after experiencing pain and a lack of mobility, the 15-time major golf champion announced on Saturday. Woods said he had the ...