A potential overreliance on new technology, the lack of standardization and long-term data and underappreciation of global spinal alignment are three of the most overlooked issues in spine care and ...

CMS physician fee rates are a top concern for physicians, and spine surgeons see additional opportunities in changing policies specific to their specialty. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of ...

Principal actress Kimber Sprawl who was magnificent in her approach to humanizing Emilia, the lieutenant and wife of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Iago is one in this number. Both Gyllenhaal and Sprawl ...

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region ... a lumbar MRI for an individual about to undergo back surgery. In this case, the surgical team uses the results of ...

We chatted with a spine surgeon and a physical therapist to find out how to fix posture. Turns out, small tweaks can make a huge impact—and your body will notice. That forward lean while ...

Levoscoliosis is a condition where the spine curves to the left in a “C” shape. This curve usually starts in the lumbar region or lower back. Treatments, such as braces or surgery, can help ...

Endoscopic spine surgery is a modern technique that enables surgeons to treat conditions such as herniated discs (slip discs), spinal stenosis and chronic back pain through tiny incisions using an ...

Kimber Cobb, executive director of the AADB ... Dentistry is not nearly as regulated as medicine. Unless they’re an oral surgeon, they don’t have hospital privileges. There’s no peer review process on ...

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — Martinsville police are mourning the loss of their beloved K-9 Kimber, who passed away after falling ill to an untreatable sickness. According to the Martinsville ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

That's according to expert Derek Ochiai, who is a doctor of sports medicine and Virginia’s leading board-certified arthroscopic hip surgeon. Dr. Ochiai practices at Nirschl Orthopaedic Center ...

Pope Francis came so close to death while in hospital with pneumonia that doctors had to choose whether “to let him go, or push forward”, the head of the pontiff’s medical team said.