Tiger Woods’ long history of surgeries has unfortunately added another chapter — this time, a new procedure. On Friday, Tiger underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery in his L4/5 Lumbar spine for ...
A study finds, for patients with herniated discs in the lower (lumbar) spine, surgery leads to greater long-term improvement in pain, functioning, and disability compared to nonsurgical treatments. An ...
Background Lumbar disc herniation has a prevalence of up to 58% in the athletic population. Lumbar discectomy is a common surgical procedure to alleviate pain and disability in athletes. We ...
Those living with herniated discs now have a less invasive surgery as an option that can repair the damaged disc microscopically.Having a herniated disc is painful, and having traditional spinal ...
If a Patient has been injured a along time ago and is now experiencing back pain though the front and back at L4 area and been told the discs is bulging would therapy help or surgery a better option.
Question: On a workers comp settlement offer I received for a L4/L5 herniated disc surgery, they refer to a "17% man as whole (85 weeks)." What does this mean and how do they come up with this amount?