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 ...

Patients with degenerative grade I spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis may experience improved quality of life after undergoing a laminectomy with lumbar spinal fusion vs. laminectomy alone, ...

Researchers found significantly higher postoperative volumetric paraspinal muscle atrophy with lumbar spine fusion, posterior procedures and non-minimally invasive fusion compared with decompression ...

No significant association was seen between type of index operation and need for revision surgery among patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS), according to a cohort study. Among 328 ...

Patients whose lumbar spinal stenosis was treated with decompression surgery plus fusion ended up no less disabled than those who had decompression alone, but they did lose more blood, stay ...

Degenerative disc disease affects up to 40% of all patients with low back pain. It can lead to spinal instability; that is, the inability of the spine to limit excessive or abnormal spinal ...

Over the past two decades, the search for relief from back pain led skyrocketing numbers of Americans to a costly procedure that bonds vertebrae together. But as evidence mounted that spinal fusion ...

"Oh, my aching back!" Chances are most of us have heard or uttered that familiar complaint more than once. In fact, statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that ...

Todd Lanman, MD, became the first spine surgeon in the U.S. to reverse a patient’s lumbar spinal fusion and return them to full motion by implanting an artificial disc, according to a March 25 news ...

The Spine Journal published an article comparing posterior lumbar fusion outcomes at physician-owned hospitals to non-physician owned hospitals. The researchers assessed 90-day costs and outcomes for ...

Surviving a car crash can feel like a miracle, but the process of putting together the pieces of one’s life does not end after the last stitch has been removed. Sunrise resident Scottie Briscoe, 52, ...