Degenerative lumbar spine disease is common in the elderly, but spinal fusion is often avoided in patients over 90 years due to perceived risks of surgical or anaesthesia-related complications.

Endoscopic spine surgery — once a niche technique practiced by a small handful of early adopters — is rapidly becoming a mainstream option for treating herniated discs, spinal stenosis and other ...

Advanced endoscopic techniques are changing the way some spine procedures are performed. Explore how minimally invasive approaches may affect surgical access, recovery, hospital stays and the patient ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, ...

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin ...

For decades, spinal fusion was usually the default answer to a worn-out or herniated disc: take it out, fuse the adjacent vertebrae, eliminate motion at that segment for good. That calculus appears to ...

For many living with chronic back pain, the prospect of spinal fusion surgery can feel daunting — lengthy recovery, permanent structural changes and limited mobility. But at Capitol Pain Institute ...

About 300,000 Americans have spinal fusion surgery each year. Many of them because they have an unstable joint in the spine. "In this particular condition, you have slipping of the bones and because ...

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