Others may benefit from spine decompression surgery with spinal fusion, which is meant to stabilize the spine after herniated discs, bone spurs or ossified ligaments are fully or partially removed.

More than a dozen abandoned boats were airlifted by a helicopter off an uninhabited island in Washington state's Puget Sound ...

Joe Vulpis of the Lightweights Podcast conducted an extensive interview with Deonna Purrazzo. As the conversation went on, she was asked to name some of the most painful moves to take in the ring.

Centinel Spine launched new instrumentation for its prodisc L lumbar disc replacement implant, the company said June 5. The new instruments were developed with the help of user feedback and designed ...

"We've got this unique window of opportunity," Highridge Medical CEO Rebecca Whitney said in an exclusive interview.

who will undergo X-rays for a stubbed toe, and now know for sure that reliever Evan Phillips’ season is over due to Tommy John surgery. It’s been that kind of year, again. The Dodgers have now ...

Alleyne CH, Rodts GE. Current and Future Approaches to Lumbar Disc Surgery (A Literature Review). MedGenMed 1(1), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine eJournal 1(6 ...

Locum tenens, a term derived from Latin meaning “to hold the place,” refers to temporary medical staffing. This practice has become increasingly popular among physicians seeking flexibility ...

Abstract: There is very limited research published in the literature that applies content-based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques to retrieval of digitized spine X-ray images using a combination of ...