Bo Nix’s back injury can cause “some of the worst pain,” but there’s no long-term sequela, according to Dr. Payal Kohli.

but it took on even more shine Monday when he revealed he played through a transverse process fracture of the lumbar spine. He got hurt against the Raiders on Nov. 24, then beat the Browns in a ...

A transverse process fracture relates to the bone wings on the side of the vertebrae. Nix said there were three lumbars involved in his lower back. "The biggest week was I had a transverse process ...

Nix appeared on the Week 13 injury report with a back injury, which has now been revealed as a transverse process fracture, a break on a side of a vertebra in your spine. He had three of these ...

"(The transverse process) was a tough one to learn in medical school, but if you think about our spine, it's a bunch of bones that are stacked up, right?" Dr. Kohli said, via MSN. "Those are vertebrae ...