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
- Primary Care Physician
- Prolotherapy
- Psychiatrist
- Psychologist
- Quadriplegia
- Radicular Pain and Radiculopathy
- Radiologist
- Relaxation Techniques
- Resection
- Resorption
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Rhizotomy
- Rod
- Sacroiliac Joint
- Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction
- Sacroiliac Joint Hypermobility
- Sacroiliac Joint Hypomobility
- Sacrum
- Scheuermann's Disease
- Sciatic Nerve
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Scoliotic Curve
- Sequestrated Disc
- Shiatsu Massage
- Shingles
- Short Leg Syndrome
- SNRI Medications
- Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP)
- SPECT/CT Scan
- Spina Bifida
- Spinal Canal
- Spinal Canal Stenosis
- Spinal Cord
- Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Spinal Fusion
