L5-S1 is the exact spot where the lumbar spine ends and the sacral spine begins. The lumbosacral joint connects these bones.

Lower back pain? You may have heard your practitioner mention something about your L4-L5 spinal segment. The lower back ...

Thus, a left L5-S1 disc herniation compresses the left S1 ... Although most recover without surgery, patients with large midline lumbar HNPs may suffer significant neurological impairment.

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 ...

MD is a 26-year-old female with an 8-week history of low back and right posterior leg pain ... MRI scan revealed a large herniated disc at the L5-S1 level on the right, compressing the right ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

They also experienced moderate to severe muscle hypertrophy in the lumbar multifidus, particularly in the L4-L5 and L5-S1 segments. In regard to other spinal changes, spaceflight was associated ...

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