Lower back pain isn’t always a slipped disc. A spine doctor explains hidden causes like sacroiliac joint arthritis, symptoms, ...

Bring up your lower back pain in conversation with friends and family — or anyone, really — and chances are you’ll hear groans of understanding. That’s because back pain, especially low back pain, is ...

Lower spine pain can develop due to sprains and strains of muscles or changes to the discs in the lower back. Conditions that affect the facet joints of the vertebrae may also cause lower spine pain.

One day, everything is fine. The next day, you wake up to a radiating pain in your spine every time you cough, sneeze or twist your back. What gives? If this story sounds familiar, you may have a ...

Lower back and hip pain is common. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 619 million people live with lower back pain and it’s the leading cause of disability worldwide. But ...

Exercise can help improve flexibility and strengthen muscles to decrease lower back pain. Chair stretches are a safe option for people who have difficulty standing. Yoga can help relieve back pain and ...

A. Almost everyone experiences back pain at some point in their lifetime. Especially as we age, our back typically degenerates at a normal rate. It’s very common to have arthritis develop over time ...

At some point, 60% of the population has had or will have lower back pain, says Kin M. Yuen, M.D., a sleep medicine specialist at UCSF Health in San Francisco, California. That means at any one point, ...

This image of poor Jason Day was taken at the 2016 World Golf Championships. Long time ago, but when you think about Day's career, that's how long—if not longer—he has been dealing with back issues.

Tiger Woods underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery in his lower back after experiencing pain and a lack of mobility, the 15-time major golf champion announced on Saturday. Woods said he had the ...

ODI% (Functional Disability): Mean improvement of -15.3 percentage points at 180 days (p = 0.0003; large effect size).