Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and minimally invasive extraforaminal lumbar interbody fusion are effective techniques for addressing degenerative lumbar spine disorders, and ...

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

203-patient analysis at DISC Surgery Centers shows 100% discharge within 23 hours with up to 60% lower total episode-of-care costs compared with hospital-based fusion procedures A new study led by ...

Josh Paschal was out for all of training camp and has missed the season up through Week 9 so far. There has been mystery regarding his health issue as not even a body part had been identified. Dan ...

Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) has made history as the first facility on Staten Island to perform the FDA-approved Total Posterior Spine System (TOPS) procedure, a groundbreaking ...

On Friday, Tiger Woods underwent surgery for the seventh time on his back, this time receiving a Lumbar disc replacement in his L4/5. The 15-time major champion was still recovering from Achilles ...

Woods himself announced via social media: “After experiencing pain and lack of mobility in my back, I consulted with doctors … The scans determined that I had a collapsed disc in L4/5, disc fragments ...

Over 400,000 spinal fusion surgeries are performed annually in the United States and as the population ages, that number is expected to rise. The goal of many spinal fusion surgeries is to reduce or ...

1 Graduate School of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China 2 Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China Objectives: Lumbar ...

Amy Schumer is letting followers in on her post-surgery recovery. The comedian, 44, took to Instagram Aug. 8 to share a photo of her using a walker following a spinal procedure. "Since my surfing ...

Amy Schumer is putting one foot in front of the other. The “Trainwrecked” star shared an Instagram photo of herself using a walker as she announced she underwent spinal surgery Friday. “Since my ...