A quiet disruption is taking place in spine surgery—one that may change how the country treats one of its most common medical problems. At the Neurosurgery & Spine Group (NSG), based in Los Angeles, ...

Senior Author: James D. Lin, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Orthopedics (Spine Surgery), Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Spine Surgery Fellowship for the Mount Sinai Health System Bottom line: ...

People with severe back problems may have a new option for relief. A revolutionary spinal fusion surgery is being developed in Southwest Florida, offering an alternative to traditional procedures that ...

Surgeons use a bony projection at the back of each vertebra called the spinous process to check the robot’s accuracy, laying ...

Alberta Health Services is touting a new, minimally invasive spinal surgery that has slashed recovery times from months to hours, allowing doctors to perform complex medical procedures without having ...

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, ...

A 20-year-old woman is sharing her story of living with scoliosis as she works to raise funds for a specialized surgery in the United States that she hopes will improve her quality of life. Living ...

Oscar Tanner’s badly twisted spine made even breathing painful, with surgery the 12-year-old’s only hope to improve. We take ...