Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at (PMC) in Meeker, started performing surgeries using the ...

Amy Lapp’s teenage son passed away in 2022 in a ski accident, but his spirit lives on through the Scotty Lapp Foundation and ...

Recently, an important study exposed a shocking reality: one unnecessary spine surgery is performed every eight minutes in ...

From cost-effectiveness of procedures to disc replacement outcomes, researchers published multiple findings about spine surgery in 2024.

Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain stimulation therapy that augments the ...

Southern California Orthopedic Institute added George Wahba, MD, according to a Dec. 2 Instagram post.

Angioplasty is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used to open blocked blood vessels that travel to the heart. Also called a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) or percutaneous ...

Some gain relief through opioid painkillers, physical therapy, steroid injections or ablation procedures that blunt pain by burning nerve endings. Spinal fusions are promoted by surgeons such as ...

“In spinal surgery, as with other fields of medicine ... including spinal fusion, laminectomy, and vertebroplasty, for which clinical trials have repeatedly shown lack of benefit for certain ...

CREATE PROCEDURE defines a new procedure. CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE will either create a new procedure, or replace an existing definition. To be able to define a procedure, the user must have the ...

Exclusion criteria: 1) patients with SMs not localized ventrally to the dentate ligaments or recurrent VIESMs; 2) patients with the VIESMs not being removed via one-piece resection; 3) patients with a ...