The lumbosacral joint connects these bones. L5-S1 is vulnerable to misalignment and injury. It can also be the site of a disc ...

The incidence of disc/vertebral degeneration and disc herniation was investigated at the L4-5 and L5-S1 level in lumbosacral magnetic resonans imaging of patients with and without congenital ...

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

Symptomatic areas for the L5 and S1 nerve roots have a large overlap ... Radicular pain caused by a lumbar disc herniation is commonly accompanied by sensory disturbances and paraesthesias. The ...

Intervertebral herniation of the nucleus pulposus almost always occurs in a backward direction because the annulus fibrosus is thinner posteriorly [1]. The L4-5 and L5-S1 disks account for ...

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs approximately 95% of the time at the L4-L5 or L5-S1 level (Fisher et al., 2004; Asch ...

Purpose: For patients who suffered from L5 spondylolysis and fail to improve using conservative ... The exclusion criteria were (1) spondylolisthesis ≥ grade II; (2) disk herniation, spinal stenosis ...