Patient learning centre

Learn about your condition.

Start with the name of the condition discussed at your appointment. Each guide explains symptoms, assessment, and possible treatment.

Neck

2 guides

Compression of the spinal cord in the neck — clumsy hands, balance changes, or altered walking. Assessed promptly.

A pinched nerve in the neck causing pain, tingling, or weakness radiating into the shoulder, arm, or hand.

4 guides

Leg pain, tingling, numbness, or weakness related to an irritated nerve in the lower back.

Leg pain, numbness, or weakness caused by disc material pressing on a nerve root in the lower back.

Narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back, producing leg heaviness and cramping that eases when you sit or lean forward.

One vertebra slipping forward on another, often alongside stenosis and mechanical back pain.

3 guides

A fracture in which a bone of the spine loses height, often because of osteoporosis.

Osteoporotic compression fractures and higher-energy injuries of the thoracic and lumbar spine.

Discitis, epidural abscess, and metastatic disease of the spine, managed alongside the wider hospital teams.

Find the procedure by name in the surgery guides.