Glossary - Understandable Definitions of Medical Terms
The Spine-health Medical Glossary provides accurate, easy-to-understand definitions for common (and not-so-common) terms related to chronic pain, spine surgery, back pain, and more. Click on a letter to get started.
Glossary Term
- Ligament
- Ligamentum Flavum
- Local Anesthetics
- Lordosis
- Lumbago
- Lumbar Spine
- Lumbar Stenosis
- Lumbosacral
- Magnetic Therapy
- Massage Therapy
- Mechanical Pain
- Medical Device Reporting
- Meningitis
- Microdiscectomy
- Milwaukee Brace
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Mobilization
- MRI Scan (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Muscle
- Muscle Relaxants
- Muscle Spasm
- Muscle Tension
- Myelogram
- Myelopathy
- Myofascial Pain
- Myofascial Release
- Myotome
- Nerve
- Nerve Block
- Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS)
- Nerve Root
- Neural Arch
- Neural Foraminal Stenosis
- Neuroforaminal Narrowing
- Neurologist
- Neurosurgeon
