Dear Mayo Clinic: I am in my late 50s and have started having stiffness in my back. I have become much less flexible and sometimes even have a hard time looking over my shoulder. I remember my ...

Neck arthritis is common and affects more than 85% of people over the age of 60. Symptoms of neck arthritis include neck pain ...

Back pain might feel like one of those inescapable things that can happen when you get older—or just while living your life in general. Who hasn’t attributed the occasional pang or jab to sleeping in ...

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a type of arthritis that affects your spine. Low back pain is a hallmark symptom, but axSpA can affect your whole body. Early diagnosis and treatment can reduce your ...

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a type of inflammatory arthritis that affects the spinal joints and the joints that connect the bottom of the spine to the hip bones (the sacroiliac joints). Experts ...

Lower spine pain can develop due to sprains and strains of muscles or changes to the discs in the lower back. Conditions that affect the facet joints of the vertebrae may also cause lower spine pain.

MRI scans are not recommended as part of routine care in spondyloarthritis, but are often performed anyway. For patients who may benefit from such scans, it's unclear whether including the spine as ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are long-term inflammatory diseases. Both cause joint damage that worsens with time. RA is an autoimmune disease that involves joint ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 75-year-old male and have had pain in my buttocks down to my outside thigh muscles. My primary care doctor ordered an MRI of the lower back and referred me to an orthopedic ...

Brent Schneider has been dancing for most of his life. Before becoming a faculty member in the Department of Modern Dance in ...

Arthritis and arthrosis—both start with the same letter. And if we’re honest, they sound similar at first glance. But while ...