Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In May 2004 a 65-year-old man fell 8 ft. when the ladder on which he was standing slipped. He was lucky that his ...

Background Unfavorable biomechanical situations, usually related to the performance of a profession and competitive sports practice, promote formation of overloads. This problem may be particularly ...

Belgian Jan Bakelants remained in the intensive care unit of the Sant'Anna hospital in Como, Italy on Sunday, unable to be moved from his bed due to an unstable fracture to his third lumbar vertebrae ...

To describe a case of retroperitoneal lymphocele as an extremely rare complication after lumbar spine fracture. A 71-year-old man presented with severe intractable low back pain caused by a huge ...

LevelCheck software clearly labels each vertebra in this X-ray image taken just before a patient's spinal surgery. Note the pin to the left of L3. L and S stand for the lumbar and sacral regions of ...