The L5-S1 junction is located between the lumbar curve and the sacral curve. The lumbar curve sweeps forward. The sacral curve opposes the direction of the lumbar curve, going backward.

The doctors at Sancheti Hospital decided to use a spinal stent—a metal mesh device that expands like a spring inside a broken ...

Technically speaking, the 6-foot, 185-pound Knox suffered a thoracic- lumbar junction fracture-dislocation with neurological involvement after being bent backward on a hit from 6-foot-3 ...

Facet joints, or zygapophyseal joints, are true synovial joints in the spine that have been identified as potential pain generators. Medial branch blocks involve the injection of a local ...

Consequently, there is a V shape where they meet. That is known as the lumbar/sacral junction, which is what enables a horse to bring its hindleg under its body. Flexion and extension happens at ...