When diagnosed with lumbar spinal stenosis, I think many people have the impression that there are only two choices: 'suppress the pain with medication or cut it out with surgery.' In fact, if ...

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, ...

Matthew Greenblatt, a physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine, says his lab kept finding the same cell in every tendon ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery have discovered the unspecialized stem cells that give rise to the body's tendons and ligaments, the tissues connecting muscles ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 86-year-old male in relatively good health. I developed pain in my lower back, buttocks and upper legs that started a couple of months ago. It is particularly painful in the ...

This story has been updated. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, underwent surgery Monday to treat spinal stenosis, according to her office. Dr. Judith L. Gorelick, a board-certified neurosurgeon, ...

When these stenosis-derived cells were transplanted into mice, they produced more tendon cells than healthy stem cells did. "Though spinal stenosis is a complex condition, this really showed us that ...

“While previous studies had proposed several candidate stem cells, none had definitively shown that a single cell population could both self-renew and generate the full spectrum of tendon and ligament ...

Surgical treatments for spinal stenosis include laminectomy, discectomy, and spinal fusion. A doctor may recommend surgery for spinal stenosis in severe cases or if nonsurgical methods do not help ...