Awake spine surgery uses local anaesthesia and light sedation, reducing risks and side effects of general anaesthesia, ...

Before Ziya Gokaslan, MD, enters the operating room, he increasingly wants the operation to have happened once already.  Not on the patient, but on a digital model of the patient’s spine. Using ...

Growing awareness of chronic back pain and nerve compression symptoms may help prevent permanent neurological damage ...

Peter Derman, MD, did not leave Texas Back Institute because he wanted distance from the institution. He is clear about that. After nearly eight years at the Plano-based spine group, where he served ...

Crossed fused renal ectopia is a rare, typically asymptomatic congenital malformation of the upper urinary tract. Diagnosis ...