Discover the 5 surprising movements accelerating your body's aging process, plus expert-backed alternatives to keep you ...

Steven Ringold, DVM, DACVR, discusses his Fetch On-Demand lecture and what attendees can learn from it.

These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many muscles and ligaments. The lumbar region is located between the thoracic (chest) ...

Unlike traditional spinal surgeries that require large incisions, muscle disruption, and prolonged recovery times, Dr. Melamed's muscle-sparing technique combines advanced imaging and microscopic ...

The skeletal system includes your bones, ligaments that attach bone to bone ... Skull bones include the following. The vertebral column (spine) protects your spinal cord, supports your head, and ...

a lumped thoracic spine and the ribcage, derived from MRI scans of a healthy adult male, was devised. The intervertebral discs were modeled as 3 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) gimbal joints using nonlinear ...

Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves more attention—and how to strengthen it.

cervical spinal disease and thoracic spinal disease; the corresponding ICD-9-CM codes are listed in (online supplementary appendix 1). We divided the study cohort into discectomy and laminectomy ...

Objective: Brain atrophy is an established biomarker for dementia, yet spinal cord involvement has not been investigated to date. As the spinal cord is relaying sensorimotor control signals from the ...