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A clinical practice guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain is being developed by a multidisciplinary guideline development group (GDG), including the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM).

Recovering from low back surgery can be challenging, but with the right exercises, you can regain strength and stability. Here are 12 exercises recommended by physical therapists to enhance your recovery following a lumbar laminectomy and discectomy.

Spinal cord compression-also called cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM)- is caused by any condition that puts pressure on the spinal cord. Symptoms may develop suddenly or gradually and may include pain or stiffness in the neck or back, balance issues, or a burning pain in the arms or legs.

Pain in the upper right back can occur due to muscle strain, spinal fractures, osteoarthritis, and herniated disks. Treatments may involve a combination of home treatments and medical intervention.

If you are prone to lower back pain - as 2 in 5 U.S. adults are - it s understandable to worry that almost any bend, lift, or twist could trigger a fl...

Lower back spasms can be painful, but they are treatable. Certain remedies, stretches, and lifestyle changes can help reduce or get rid of back spasms.

A simple combination of blood and urine tests may allow many infants with fevers (febrile) to safely avoid lumbar punctures (spinal taps), according to new findings from a major international study published in JAMA. The results show that these noninvasive tests can reliably identify infants with fe...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this response is controlled by specific DNA sequences. This knowledge could help develop more targeted tre...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Itvisma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-brve) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients 2 years and older with confirmed mutation in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene.

If you live with constant lower back pain, surgery can start to look like the only way out. Yet new research from the University of South Australia published in the Australian Health Review shows that it's mindset, more than pain severity, that's pushing people towards surgery they m...