At the L5/S1 level, 58% were found to have an element of disc displacement, most of which were disc bulges. Compared with changes seen in the normal population (non-athletes) as described in the ...

In his 2021 rookie year, Onwuzurike logged 16 games but played through chronic back pain. In 2022, he missed the entire season due to lumbar spine surgery performed in October of 2022. The specific ...

Mangione allegedly described back pain as far back as childhood ... weeks before noting he'd undergone "a L5/S1 fusion" in 2023. The surgery joins lumbar and sacral vertebrae, often using metal ...