“This is a totally new way of treating back pain,” said Prentiss Lawson Jr., M.D., an associate professor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and program director of the ...

Groundbreaking neurostimulation technology offers hope and healing for difficult-to-manage pain. Chronic low back pain, a formidable foe causing disability and soaring healthcare costs, now faces a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an implantable neurostimulation system (ReActiv8, Mainstay Medical) to treat intractable chronic low back pain associated with multifidus muscle ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Key Takeaways The lumbar spine includes five vertebrae that help with mobility ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium 2 Centre of Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium 3 Department of Physical ...

Background The high prevalence of non-specific low back pain and its correlation with the findings in the lumbar multifidus muscles (electromyography activity, morphology and thickness) and good ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results published in Orthopedics showed facet joint osteoarthritis was associated with a higher multifidus ...