For decades, spinal fusion was a familiar answer for degenerative disease requiring stabilization. That starting point is beginning to shift. Recent Becker’s reporting shows cervical disc replacement ...
Spine surgery is moving outpatient quickly, but the hospital is not disappearing from the equation. Lumbar fusions, cervical disc replacements and endoscopic procedures that once routinely required ...
Scoliosis is diagnosed if there is greater than a 10-degree curve of the spine in the coronal plane. Stella's spine turned 52 ...
DeGen Medical, Inc., a U.S.-based medical device manufacturer specializing in patient-specific spinal implants, today issued ...
If you live with constant lower back pain, surgery can start to look like the only way out. Yet new research from the University of South Australia published in the Australian Health Review shows that ...
A young girl diagnosed with severe scoliosis received treatment through robotic-assisted growth rod distractions. This ...
These San Francisco, CA hospitals are evaluated on Back Surgery (Spinal Fusion) performance using quality measures including patient outcomes, nurse communication, patient experience, and specialty ...
Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...
The suit names Total Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, which has run NUMC's orthopedics department since 2007. Total Ortho says the surgery lasted longer.