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 ...

The lower back (lumbar spine) is a fairly complex structure. It consists of 5 vertebrates, the lowest is the L4-L5. This section of the spine is responsible for supporting the upper body and ...

In case of highly stimulated muscles, the most significant decrease in compressive force happens at the level L4–L5. Tendencies toward an increase in compressive force with LL were not found at all, ...

Researchers assessed physiologic changes of the spine as well as the frequency of low back pain among astronauts during and after spaceflight.

This repository provides an application for spine segmentation using the YOLOv8 model. The application predicts spine parts (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, and S1) from uploaded images, drawing bounding boxes ...

A 66-year-old female accountant was admitted to spine surgery department because of recurrent low back pain. She was diagnosed with lumbar disc herniation at L4/L5 and L5/S1 levels by Magnetic ...

What is lumbar spinal stenosis? Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back (lumbar spine). The spinal canal houses the spinal cord and nerves. The narrowing caused by ...

Along with back pain, over the next few days she began ... The MRI scan demonstrated evidence of mild degenerative disc disease at the L4-L5 and L5-S1 interspace without significant compression ...

The clinical presentation of degenerative spondylolisthesis is dependent upon the concomitant presence of spinal stenosis at ... and stenosis of the L4-L5 segment, the L5 nerve root usually ...