L5-S1 is the exact spot where the lumbar spine ends and the sacral spine begins. The lumbosacral joint connects these bones.

Many clinicians subscribe to the concept of a “back related” hamstring injury (or more specifically lumbar spine related), 3– 5 although this is a controversial ... athletes with the common finding of ...

The lumbosacral plexus is formed by the ventral branches of the second to fifth lumbar nerves. The lower division of the fourth lumbar nerve joins the fifth, and the lumbosacral trunk thus formed ...

Lumbar intervertebral disc prolapse is most prevalent between the ages of 30–50 years, and the L5/S1 and L4/5 intervertebral discs account for 95% of all lumbar prolapses. A lumbar disc prolapse ...

This curve helps keep the discs and muscles in proper alignment. The lumbar spine rests upon the sacrum. The place where they meet is called the lumbosacral joint, or L5-S1. Above and below each ...

aDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland bDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University ...

The overall symptom profile of lumbar disc-related radicular pain differs ... areas among the patients with affected L5 or the S1 nerve roots. Few patients had assumed affected L4 (5/50) or L3 (1/50) ...

Objectives: To examine the relation between congenital structural malformations in the lumbar spine, early degeneration and ... and disc herniation was investigated at the L4-5 and L5-S1 level in ...

Each MRI is annotated with the identification of five lumbar discs (D1, D2, D3, D4, D5) and six vertebral bones (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, S1).SSMSpine provides not just annotated segmentation masks but ...

The median position of the L1-S1 intervertebral disc was identified on the sagittal images from lumbar MRI, and the paravertebral muscles ... Modic II (Figure 5): T1WI shows a high signal, T2WI shows ...