Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital has tapped Erik King, MD, as division head of orthopaedic surgery and ...

LITHIA — Dr. Stuart Goldsmith founded Orthopaedic Medical Group of Tampa Bay in Brandon in 1978, hoping to build a practice ...

Good habits can protect your back, too, said Dr. Patricia Zheng, an associate professor in the orthopedic surgery department ...

Timothy O’Connor, M.D. on Feb. 10 performed the first next-generation augmented reality spinal surgery in Florida at Bethesda Hospital West.

Neurological spine surgeon David Yam, MD, has joined the Spine Center at Prosser Memorial Health in Walla Walla, Wash. The ...

The new multidisciplinary center will focus on providing prompt diagnosis and treatment for patients with back and spine concerns. It will be the only program in Florida to bring together orthopedic ...

Patient accessibility to healthcare is a persistent challenge, and spine surgeons are using multiple strategies to manage it.

Surgery to remove your stomach is called a gastrectomy. There are different types of gastrectomy. The type you have depends on the stage and position of your cancer. You might have: a subtotal or ...

entire thoracic spine.” According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, a laminectomy is a “type of surgery in which a surgeon removes part or all of the vertebral bone (lamina). In his post, Mir (19-13) ...

a neurosurgical spine surgeon and director of minimally invasive scoliosis surgery at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian. A spinal epidural abscess is an infection that can push on the spinal cord ...

He spent the next few years researching and developing the procedure. "The way the surgery works is [a spinal cord stimulator] supplies that little bit of an extra boost to the spinal cord to make ...

Surgery may be the best option in some situations. For some people, non-invasive treatment and surgery have similar long-term outcomes for lumbar spinal stenosis. For example, for some people, ...