Lumbar Disc Disease

Abstract

Historical perspective on sciatica anatomy and pathophysiology of lumbar disc disease natural history and epidemiology of lumbar disc disease clinical diagnosis other causes of low back pain and sciatica imaging of the lumbar spine electrodiagnosis non-operative treatment of low back pain sciatica spinal manipulation lumbar disc disease - surgical treatment decompression and the Inaccessible Zone microdiscectomy automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy - indications, technique, and results chemonucleolysis with chymopapain complications of lumbar disc surgery repeat operation for lumbar disc the rationale for fusion in lumbar disc surgery posterior lumbar interbody fusion the role of spinal instrumentation in the failed back spondyolisthesis complications of instrumentation and fusion spinal canal stenosis back pain in children lumbar arachnoiditis-etiology and therapy lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis srugical decision making in the chronic back syndrome medical management of chronic low back pain compensation low back pain functional restoration computerized decision making in disc diseae medico-legal implications of complications of lumbar spine surgery.