If you have been diagnosed with disc degeneration or spinal arthritis, you may have received some temporary relief with ...

Many patients hesitate to consider surgery, fearing its effectiveness or the potential risks involved. However, advancements in spinal surgery have dramatically improved outcomes, making ...

This keeps the ligament from affecting the nerve root and frees up space in the spinal canal. You don’t have to be asleep for PILD, so it may be an option for people who can’t have surgery ...

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Neural foraminal stenosis causes nerve irritation and compression when the space a spinal nerve travels through narrows. Understand its symptoms, causes, and treatments.

That’s because early Monday morning, Mir revealed on Instagram that he recently “underwent an emergency spinal fusion and laminectomy of (his) entire thoracic spine.” According to Johns Hopkins ...

He thought he hurt his back doing yard work, but a scan led to a health crisis and surgery that was “almost like defusing a ...

The patient was a 73-year-old man with progressively disabling right hip pain for 2.5 years. The patient had failed ...

Spinal stenosis refers to narrowing of the spinal canal or tunnel that houses the neural elements (nerves) that travel along the spinal column. The narrowing can be central stenosis (referring to the ...

The best painkillers for spinal stenosis vary from person to person. If the medication you're taking for pain doesn't seem to be helping, talk to your healthcare provider about other medications or ...