Thumbay Hospital Fujairah has successfully completed the first reported Awake Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic ...

Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure doctors can use to treat many different problems in your back or neck. The surgery joins two or more of your vertebrae together, which can: stabilize and align ...

From time to time, we hear or read about medical procedures that can be ineffective and needlessly drive up the nation’s health-care costs. This occasional series explores such needless treatments or ...

While spinal fusion has long been the “gold standard,” growing long-term data on adjacent segment disease is telling a different story on the best options for patients. Four spine surgeons discuss how ...

Several types of back surgery can help reduce back pain. Common procedures include spinal fusion, discectomy, and disk replacement. Recovery times may depend on the extent of the procedure. Share on ...

A WWE SmackDown star injured her neck last year and is now recovering after a fusion surgery. She had anterior cervical ...

We retrospectively reviewed a prospectively collected database to identify elderly patients who underwent 1–2 levels lumbar decompression surgery (D-group) or fusion surgery (F-group) for LSS with ...

Key Takeaways Prehabilitation might help older people recover better from spinal fusion surgeryPatients 75 and older who got ...

Tigers Woods won the Masters championship on Sunday, one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, and he might have his spinal fusion surgery to thank for that. Woods, 43, had the procedure in ...

When Texas Rangers left-hander Matt Harrison underwent spinal fusion surgery in June, some feared the 29-year-old would never ...

To the Editor: Försth et al. (April 14 issue) 1 found that in patients with lumbar stenosis, even in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis, decompression surgery plus fusion surgery does not ...