The spine (aka backbone ... is numbered and grouped into 5 regions. Diagram. There are 7 cervical vertebrae in the cervical region. There are 12 thoracic vertebrae in the thoracic region. There are 5 ...

These nerve pairs spread throughout your body to deliver commands from your brain and spinal cord to and from parts of your body. Diagram. The central nervous system and peripheral nervous system work ...

Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

Evidence for this function first came from studies of the organ's anatomy and its nerves as well as the structure of the brainstem. Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly ... information between the thalamus and the spinal cord. The yellow area is the cerebellum ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) comprises narrowing of the spinal canal with subsequent neural compression, and is frequently associated with symptoms of neurogenic claudication. To establish a ...

Sciatica results from the irritation or compression of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back to the toes. Certain stretches and exercises may help relieve the pain and discomfort it ...

Baylor Medicine’s spine surgeons use the latest in technological and surgical advancements to perform image-guided spinal procedures and utilize minimally-invasive techniques when possible. Surgical ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

Tiger Woods had another surgery on his lower back — his sixth in the past 10 years — on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year. In a brief ...

This means back- and stomach-sleepers should be able to draw a line from the neck to the lumbar (lower spine) region to the knees, while side-sleepers should be able to draw a line along the ...

The combination of complex anatomy, variability of presentation and the non-specific ... and in the posterior coronal plane double the distance from the spinous process of the L5 lumbar vertebrae to ...