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 ...

Theragen, a Jacksonville, Florida–based medical device company, today announced new data demonstrating how patients' demographics, health histories and surgical techniques may predict their recovery ...

Newswise — Children’s Hospital Los Angeles utilizes an enhanced recovery protocol for youth who have undergone spinal fusion surgery for conditions such as adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. For ...

Spinal fusion has long been “the gold standard” in spine surgery, but motion-preserving techniques have become more attractive to physicians and patients in recent years. Spine surgeons discuss how ...

Four months after cervical fusion surgery, a man still could not lift his left hand to touch his head. His left shoulder remained painful, sore, and tight despite electrotherapy and other supportive ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study analysed genetic data from more than 1 million people with at least one of the 14 psychiatric disorders. It also looked at almost 5 million people without those diagnoses.