A common cause for missed days at work or a trip to the emergency room is the intense back and leg pain that comes from a pinched nerve in the lower back. How does this happen? What are the treatment ...

Introduction: Robot-assisted surgery is becoming increasingly popular and its application is expanding to various spinal surgical procedures, including endoscopic spinal surgery. Aim: The aim of this ...

To the Editor: Försth et al. (April 14 issue) 1 found that in patients with lumbar stenosis, even in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis, decompression surgery plus fusion surgery does not ...

Revision spine surgery is among the most technically demanding work in the OR, and some spine surgeons have rethought their approaches to these cases. Three spine surgeons discuss their changes for ...

Patients may wish to take a one- to three-month break from lumbar epidural steroid injections (LESIs) before undergoing lumbar spinal fusion surgery. Why? An increased risk of infection has been ...

The treatment of chronic sciatica caused by herniation of a lumbar disk has not been well studied in comparison with acute disk herniation. Data are needed on whether diskectomy or a conservative ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long-term corticosteroid use is associated with significant increases in perioperative adverse outcomes for ...

A study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City found that a CT scan of the lumbar spine prior to surgery indicated that a significant number of patients had low bone density that was ...