If you've ever dealt with back pain, you know it can range from making simple movements harder to stopping you in your tracks. Dr. Dominic Pelle is a Spine Surgeon with the Cleveland Clinic Center for ...

One day, everything is fine. The next day, you wake up to a radiating pain in your spine every time you cough, sneeze or twist your back. What gives? If this story sounds familiar, you may have a ...

Lower back pain isn’t always a slipped disc. A spine doctor explains hidden causes like sacroiliac joint arthritis, symptoms, ...

A recent conversation about cortisone shots and back pain due to herniated discs inspired me to write this article. The person I was speaking with was quite misinformed about when cortisone shots are ...

A herniated disk — sometimes called a slipped or bulging disk — occurs when one of the disks that cushion the vertebrae (bone segments) that make up your spine tears or leaks, becoming displaced. This ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 70-year-old active dentist and pharmacist with chronic lower back pain. My MRI shows a compressed/extruded disc in contact with a specific nerve. It is extruded by 5 mm. I know ...

Lower spine pain can develop due to sprains and strains of muscles or changes to the discs in the lower back. Conditions that affect the facet joints of the vertebrae may also cause lower spine pain.

Q. I am a 19-year-old competitive basketball player who has had low back pain for three months. The more I play, the worse it hurts. Rebounding and shooting hurt the most. I have no pain going down my ...

Certain exercises, such as stretches and rotations, can help heal herniated discs by pushing the disc away from the nerve root. Herniated discs (also called bulging discs or slipped discs) can be ...