In 2025 Becker’s has reported on three professional athletes who had spine surgery so far. 1. Denver Broncos safety P.J. Locke announced that he had spinal fusion after the team’s Jan. 12 playoff game ...

Spinal fusion has long been “the gold standard” in spine surgery, but motion-preserving techniques have become more attractive to physicians and patients in recent years. Spine surgeons discuss how ...

Patients living with dementia experience a higher hazard for adverse events related to elective lumbar spine surgery, according to a recent study. “Clinical outcomes following elective lumbar spine ...

Fairbank J, Frost H, Wilson-MacDonald J, Ly-Mee Y, Barker K, Collins R; for the Spine Stabilisation Trial Group. Randomised controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When the Charité artificial disc received FDA approval for clinical use in 2004, most spine surgeons thought ...

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, ...

Background The optimal components of postoperative exercise programmes following single-level lumbar discectomy have not been identified. Facilitating lumbar multifidus (LM) function after discectomy ...

Robot-assisted surgery beneficial for pediatric spine cases enables faster return to sports and reduces complications, finds HSS study.

The treatment of chronic sciatica caused by herniation of a lumbar disk has not been well studied in comparison with acute disk herniation. Data are needed on whether diskectomy or a conservative ...

A recent German study found the ProDisc prosthesis to be a safe and effective treatment for patients with debilitating, multilevel low back pain related to fusion surgery or degenerative conditions.