According to the North American Community Hub Statistics (NCHstats), back pain affects four in every five people in the United States. The discomfort and loss of mobility that it causes result in 264 ...

In spine surgery, innovation rarely arrives as a single breakthrough. More often, it is iterative, shaped in operating rooms, refined in cadaver labs and tested in the quiet friction points of real ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Researchers found no differences in postoperative ...

Procedures that most commonly rate high on the pain scale involve bones and nerves, such as spinal fusion, open-heart surgery, and total knee replacement.

Surgical treatments for spinal stenosis include laminectomy, discectomy, and spinal fusion. A doctor may recommend surgery for spinal stenosis in severe cases or if nonsurgical methods do not help ...

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 ...

Scoliosis is the medical term for a sideways curvature of the spine. Spinal fusion surgery (SFS) for scoliosis fuses two or more vertebrae together to help straighten the spine and prevent the ...

Conclusions: Navigation- and robot-assisted UBE-LIF are safe and effective procedures. Robot-assisted surgery offers higher screw accuracy and faster insertion, while the navigation-assisted approach ...