By contrast, ChatGPT 4.0 hit 100% accuracy for diagnostic testing and a 33% accuracy rate for surgical intervention ...

Disc herniation (or bulge) is another common cause of lumbar radiculopathy. A disc is a round rubbery cushion that sits ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

3. "Overuse" was defined for spinal fusions and/or laminectomies if patients did not have radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, radiculopathy, radicular pain ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

Disc herniation (or bulge) is another common cause of lumbar radiculopathy. A disc is a round rubbery cushion that sits between your vertebrae. A tear in the rubbery outer portion of the disc, called ...

Dr. Romano's specialties are spine, herniated/ruptured disc, neck and back pain, lumbar radiculopathy/sciatica, cervical radiculopathy, spinal stenosis and myelopathy, degenerative disc disease, ...

An accident or trauma can lead to severe neck and back pain, due to a herniated disc, muscle sprain ... and may press on the spinal nerves. Irritation of a spinal nerve is called radiculopathy and can ...

Here's what a herniated disc is, what causes it and what sort of treatment options are available and recommended if you experience one.

A herniated disc, also known as a ruptured disc or a slipped disc, is characterized by one of the discs in the spine breaking open or moving out of place. "Your spinal column encases and ...