About eight in 10 U.S. adults will experience low back pain at some point in their lives, according to the National Institutes of Health, and back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, as ...

Surgery to repair a herniated disc was once a procedure that evoked images of long hospital stays and a drawn out recovery — but for many patients, surgery is not necessary or has become minimally ...

Chattanooga Wellness Centers provide the Latest Holistic Wellness Services and Cold Laser Therapy advancements to reduce pain, heal your soft tissue injuries and so much more! Dr. Shawn R. Jones is ...

Full-endoscopic uniportal surgery with a new interlaminar and lateral transforaminal approach may replace open nucleotomy of sequestered disc prolapses as the choice treatment for lumbar disc ...

Non-surgical spinal decompression is a state-of-the-art treatment that has been helping thousands of patients with chronic low back pain, sciatica, spinal stenosis and herniated, bulging or ...

COVID-19 has accelerated the migration of surgeries to the outpatient setting, and many administrators expect the trend to continue. Administrators are seeing three-level 360-degree fusions, anterior ...

In comparison with open surgery, while minimally invasive surgery for cervical or lumbar discectomy may speed up recovery and reduce post-operative pain, it does not improve long-term function or ...

As much disc material as is easily accessible is removed with small curettes and rongeurs. At this point, intervertebral disc space distraction is applied. However, longitudinal head halter traction ...

McMaster University researchers have found that current evidence does not support the routine use of minimally invasive surgery to remove herniated disc material pressing on the nerve root or spinal ...