In fact, there is no specific mattress that’s best for back pain. Instead, people with back pain should look for mattresses that feel medium-firm to you. Those beds have the best chance of ...

Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves ...

The condition is poorly understood, although it is strongly linked to smoking and obesity. Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is a group of disorders caused by the compression of nerves or blood vessels ...

Levoscoliosis is a condition where the spine curves to the left in a “C ... and right at the upper back (thoracic region). This article overviews levoscoliosis, including its causes ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

Most nonsurgical and noninterventional treatments for low back pain failed to outperform placebo in a new systematic review and meta-analysis, with just 10% showing only modest pain relief.

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new study revealed that only 10% of non-surgical ...

By improving mid-back (thoracic spine) and rib cage mobility, you can enhance your ability to rotate, alleviate pain and move through life with greater ease and lower risk of injury. Many people ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...

Acupuncture. Massage. Muscle relaxants. Cannabinoids. Opioids. The list of available treatments for low back pain goes on and on. But there’s not good evidence that these treatments actually ...

There are figures that leave no room for doubt, and this is one of them: over 600 million people worldwide suffer from low back pain. And the situation is only going to worsen. It is estimated that by ...