Surgeons love the OR, but occasionally, a sharp clinical diagnosis—especially a rare condition—can bring the same ...

A healthy spine has natural curves forward at the neck and lower back, and a slight outward curve in the mid-back. Kyphosis exaggerates that outward curve in the thoracic spine, creating that ...

A potential overreliance on new technology, the lack of standardization and long-term data and underappreciation of global spinal alignment are three of the most overlooked issues in spine care and ...

MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more. MRI is a noninvasive diagnostic tool that uses radio waves and a magnetic field to produce detailed ...

“The psoas is the only muscle that connects the rib cage, which we would actually call like the thoracic spine, with the leg,” says Aimee Lake, a senior integrative pelvic health physical ...

an automobile accident could cause herniation of a previously degenerated disk. Comparison of preinjury and postinjury MRI can objectively determine what abnormality is due to the injury.

Lacy discovered people had been experimenting with preventive, radiation-free, full-body MRI scans ... auto-immune disorders and brain aneurysms, spinal degeneration and non-cancerous conditions ...