L5-S1 is one of the two most common sites for back surgery. The other is the area just above, called L4-L5. In the low back, ...

Co-Chief Emeritus of the spine service at HSS, Harvinder Sandhu, M.D., told OTW, “Historically, depression is associated with ...

The place where they meet is called the lumbosacral joint, or L5-S1. The muscles in your lumbar ... treatments such as injections or surgery for your lumbar spine. Understanding the basic anatomy ...

I’ve been suffering from back pain for years, and imaging shows Modic changes at L5-S1. What does this mean, and could it be the cause of my chronic pain? Modic changes in simple terms are ...

The MRI scan demonstrated evidence of mild degenerative disc disease at the L4-L5 and L5-S1 interspace without significant compression of neural structures, with normal appearing vertebral bodies ...