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
- Spinal Manipulation
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spinal Tap
- Spinal Tumor
- Spine
- Spinous Process
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylolysis
- Spondylosis
- Sports Medicine
- Stabilization Training
- Stress Management
- Subluxation
- Swedish Massage
- Synovial Cyst
- Tai-Chi
- TED Hose
- Tendon
- Thoracic Spine
- Thoracic Vertebrae
- Titanium
- Traction
- Tranquilizer
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS, electrotherapy)
- Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
- Transverse Process
- Trigger Point
- Trigger Point Injections
- Trigger Point Myotherapy
- Uncovertebral Joint
- Upper Back Pain
- Vertebra, Vertebrae (Plural)
- Vertebral Body
- Vertebral End Plates
- Vertebroplasty
- X-Ray Scan
