Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings from a recently published study showed the removal of a degenerative posterior longitudinal ligament ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of the 15 patients who underwent anterior decompression, 60% could not walk preoperatively. Anterior ...

Study design: A case report. Objectives: To report a case of cervical amyotrophy caused by hypertrophy of the posterior longitudinal ligament (HPLL). Setting: Department of Neurological Surgery, Aichi ...

To clarify the histological characteristics of hypertrophy of the posterior longitudinal ligament (HPLL) of the cervical spine and the relationship between HPLL and ossification of the posterior ...

Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is a progressive spinal disease characterized by ectopic bone formation in the spine, leading to severe neurological symptoms due to spinal ...

A 58-year-old man with diabetes mellitus who did not smoke presented to the hospital with a 12-month history of back pain, progressive numbness in his extremities and difficulty walking. Upon physical ...

Ligaments are bands of tough elastic tissue around your joints. They connect bone to bone, give your joints support, and limit their movement. You have ligaments around your knees, ankles, elbows, ...

Tendons and ligaments are fibrous bands of connective tissue. The main difference is the part of the anatomy they connect to. Both tendons and ligaments play roles in stabilizing the skeleton and ...

You have thousands of ligaments and tendons in your body. Both are made of connective tissue and can be torn or overstretched, but they differ in function and are essential to proper body mechanics.