Introduction: Lumbar degenerative disease (LDD) is increasingly common, and causes back and leg pain that impairs quality of life. Lumbar interbody fusion (LIF) is effective for patients with neural ...

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 ...

The procedure replaces small joints in the back of the spine to preserve a patient's full range of motion. The prosthetic device is so new that long-term studies on its durability are not yet ...

Spine surgery is increasingly defined by a tension few outside the field fully see: the collision of clinical complexity and economic constraint. For surgeons like Oliver Tannous, MD, an orthopedic ...

Procedures that most commonly rate high on the pain scale involve bones and nerves, such as spinal fusion, open-heart surgery, and total knee replacement.