The cauda equina is the lumbar and sacral nerve roots extending from the lowest part of the spinal cord. It fills the thecal sac from approximately L2 to S1. Symptoms include urinary retention or ...

New research confirms that sacral ... deficient spinal inhibitory signals, which would suppress detrusor contractions by stimulating afferent anorectal branches of pelvic nerves, afferent sensory ...

However, it gets its job done while being only 0.4 to 0.6 inches in diameter ... five lumbar, five sacral, and one coccygeal nerve. Damage to the spinal cord can cause paralysis.

Many clinicians subscribe to the concept of a “back related” hamstring injury (or more specifically lumbar spine ... (the sacral ala). It remains to be seen whether it would be technically easy to ...