Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While the results of a recent randomized control trial comparing conservative care to percutaneous disc ...

Initial applications of Ho:YAG laser to the spine produced shrinkage of the intervertebral disc and created a new technology through which disc disease could be managed noninvasively. Percutaneous ...

Symptomatic herniation (prolapse) of a lumbar intravertebral disc is a common cause of chronic low back pain and sciatica. Disc herniation is a result of the protrusion of the nucleus pulposus through ...

December 4, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — Minimally invasive percutaneous disc decompression trumped traditional conservative treatment for painful herniated discs in this first-ever randomized ...

Discs that act like cushions between the bones of the spine can sometimes get damaged and protrude onto nerves, causing back and leg pain, and numbness and weakness in the leg. In percutaneous ...