It usually happens at the base of your spine (lumbar spondylolisthesis). When the slipped vertebra puts pressure on a nerve, it can cause pain in your lower back or legs. Spondylolysis (pronounced ...

With prolonged standing, he would develop pain and numbness radiating down the posterior thighs and calves. Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; (Right) T2-weighted sagittal MRI.

The other is the area just above, called L4-L5. In the low back, the L5-S1 junction is often the site of a problem known as spondylolisthesis. Disc herniation at L5-S1 is also possible and is a ...

Traditionally, the surgical management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis consisted of decompressive laminectomy alone. In 1985, Lombardi and colleagues [7] reported the results of 47 ...

The treatment effect for a degenerative spondylolisthesis level of L3–L4 was larger than that for a level of L4–L5 (33.1 vs. 16.8 for SF-36 bodily pain, P=0.01) at 2 years but not at 3 months ...

Conditions such as herniated disks, spinal stenosis, and spondylolisthesis can compress the nerves and spinal cord, causing pain, numbness, weakness, or reduced mobility. Lumbar decompression ...

Lumbar radiculopathy is most often caused by degenerative changes to the spine and surrounding structures, which can lead to nerve compression commonly due to disc herniation, spondylolisthesis ...

who had stable degenerative spondylolisthesis (degree of spondylolisthesis, 3 to 14 mm) and symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis to undergo either decompressive laminectomy alone (decompression ...

Traditionally, the surgical management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis consisted of decompressive laminectomy alone. Clinical studies have since shown that arthrodesis improves outcomes.

Lumbar Spondylolithesis: (Left ... clearly visualize the CSF surrounding the descending nerve roots of the cauda equina within the thecal sac. Spondylolisthesis is defined as slippage (either forwards ...