Lower back surgery represents a life-changing decision that demands careful consideration. While many view surgery as a solution to chronic pain, understanding these seven critical facts helps create ...

Researchers who had been using Fitbit data to help predict surgical outcomes have a new method to more accurately gauge how patients may recover from spine surgery. Using machine-learning techniques, ...

Supportive shoes, physical therapy, and stretching can help.

A spine operation can go exactly as planned. The patient leaves the hospital, avoids a readmission and looks good at six weeks. Aqib Zehri, MD, does not think this fact tells him whether the surgery ...

When Daniel Park, MD, began learning endoscopic spine surgery nearly a decade ago, the surgeons coming up behind him barely knew what to make of it. Fellowship applicants would hear “endoscopic” and ...

An emerging type of minimally invasive spine surgery reduces the use of pain medication in patients' recovery compared to those who undergo other less minimally invasive spine surgery, which use ...

Two New Hampshire athletes returned to activity after endoscopic spine surgery relieved nerve compression, a less invasive ...

Carl Moore is back on the Chattahoochee River after a back injury and is grateful for his ultra-minimally invasive endoscopic spine surgery. ATLANTA - Emory University Hospital Midtown is the first ...

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...