Study design: A case report of painful lumbar Schmorl's node is presented. Objective: To describe diagnostic evidence and the result of surgical treatment of a rare case of painful Schmorl's node.

People who suffer from lower back problems are more likely to have a spine similar to that of the chimpanzee, our closest ape ancestor, researchers say. Back pain can result from a lesion known as a ...

Across the U.S., an estimated 31 million people are currently suffering from lower back pain. You may be one of them — and it could be due to “an ancestral spine shape,” a new study suggests. The ...

BURNABY, CANADA—Biological anthropologist Kimberly Plomp of Simon Fraser University has investigated the relationship between vertebral shape, upright locomotion, and human spinal health using ...