ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M53.2X Spinal instabilities › M53.2X6
Spinal instabilities, lumbar region
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Spinal instabilities, lumbar region
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from the M50-M54 section Other dorsopathies (M50-M54)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region
- discitis NOS (M46.4-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Lax, laxity
- Tenosynovitis
- Change > joint
- Lesion > joint
- Injury > axilla
- Mushrooming hip
- Sprain > scapula
- Unstable > joint
- Change > hip joint
- Avulsion > ligament
- Division > ligament
- Instability > spine
- Unstable > back NEC
- Dislocation > tarsal
- Unstable > spine NEC
- Detachment > ligament
- Dislocation > chronic
- Dislocation > partial
- Disruption > ligament
- Laceration > ligament
- Tear, torn > ligament
- Derangement > shoulder
- Detachment > cartilage
- Dislocation > habitual
- Tear, torn > cartilage
- Dislocation > midtarsal
- Disorder > articulation
- Dislocation > incomplete
- Dislocation > metatarsal
- Hemarthrosis > traumatic
- Injury > scapular region
- Disease, diseased > joint
- Dislocation > spontaneous
- Avulsion > joint > capsule
- Injury > shoulder > sprain
- Laceration > joint capsule
- Subluxation > pathological
- Injury > foot > dislocation
- Laceration > capsule, joint
- Relaxation > back ligaments
Showing 40 of 81 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M53.2X1 | Spinal instabilities, occipito-atlanto-axial region | Valid |
| M53.2X2 | Spinal instabilities, cervical region | Valid |
| M53.2X3 | Spinal instabilities, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M53.2X4 | Spinal instabilities, thoracic region | Valid |
| M53.2X5 | Spinal instabilities, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M53.2X7 | Spinal instabilities, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M53.2X8 | Spinal instabilities, sacral and sacrococcygeal region | Valid |
| M53.2X9 | Spinal instabilities, site unspecified | Valid |