Get on your hands and knees, with your hands shoulder-width apart, knees directly below your hips and spine straight. Now go ...

In anterior lumbar interbody fusion and decompression surgery, the doctors go into the body through the front all the way to ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal ...

Lower back surgery represents a life-changing decision that demands careful consideration. While many view surgery as a ...

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6. Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa., has the highest rate of unnecessary spinal fusion/laminectomy in the nation at 62.8%. One physician was responsible for most of those cases.

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

“Lateral lumbar fusion is a state-of-the-art spinal surgery where the spine is approached from the side to remove a damaged disc and replaces it with a bone graft. This approach stabilizes the ...

Theradaptive, a privately held, clinical stage biologics company developing targeted protein therapeutics for spine, orthopedics, soft tissue repair and targeted immuno-oncology, today announced the ...

World Wrestling Entertainment star Randy Orton suffered a spinal injury in a Nov. 8 Smackdown competition, according to a Nov. 9 report from Newsweek. Following the event, Mr. Orton was diagnosed with ...