If your symptoms persist, you should check in with your healthcare provider; you may require other treatments such as injections or surgery for your lumbar spine. Understanding the basic anatomy ...

An inside look at the structure of the back. When most people mention their back, what they are actually referring to is their spine. The spine runs from the base of your skull down the length of your ...

Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Neurological Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Dr A Santillan, ...

Interventional treatment options include kyphoplasty or spinal fusion surgery. An anterior thoracic vertebral body replacement involves the removal and replacement a damaged vertebra, and stabilizes ...

In minimally invasive spine surgery, the surgeon will approach the spine from one of three positions, depending on the patient's age, symptoms, spine alignment, and the anatomy of the nerves and blood ...

Surgery is generally used in degenerative disease for decompression of spinal cord or nerve roots. The decompression itself may lead to a relative destabilisation of the cervical spine by interference ...

In the operation room, the fellows are exposed to a variety of traditional as well as cutting-edge surgical techniques. The fellows graduate with technical proficiency in spinal decompression, spinal ...

As technology continues to advance, so too does the possibility of better outcomes in spine surgery. As more physicians lean into AI, software, mapping capabilities and robotics, patients are expected ...

Endoscopic spine surgery was initially used for lumbar disc lesions. However, it has evolved dramatically in recent years with the rapid development of endoscopic armamentaria and technological ...

We aspire to become the recognized authority on issues of patient outcomes and safety and on health care system performance in spine. Learn more about the Surgical Outcome Research Center. Patients ...

Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

Spine surgery has changed in recent times due to ... These tools assist surgeons in understanding a complex anatomy of the ...