The L5-S1 joint can be vulnerable to misalignment or injury. Common causes of pain at L5-S1 include disc herniation and spondylolisthesis. Pain from L5-S1 is often treated with various methods, ...

If your back pain symptoms get worse or don’t improve within a few days after a fall, your doctor can help identify underlying causes like muscle strain or disc herniation. Falling can hurt. It’s ...

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, ...