In spine surgery, innovation rarely arrives as a single breakthrough. More often, it is iterative, shaped in operating rooms, refined in cadaver labs and tested in the quiet friction points of real ...

Elanor Ferguson wants to set a record as the fastest woman to walk the event with a fused spine.

According to the North American Community Hub Statistics (NCHstats), back pain affects four in every five people in the United States. The discomfort and loss of mobility that it causes result in 264 ...

Spinal fusion has long been “the gold standard” in spine surgery, but motion-preserving techniques have become more attractive to physicians and patients in recent years. Spine surgeons discuss how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

Broncos safety P.J. Locke underwent back surgery shortly after the team’s playoff loss to the Bills, he announced in a 14-minute YouTube video. The first episode of the personal documentary series, ...

Procedures that most commonly rate high on the pain scale involve bones and nerves, such as spinal fusion, open-heart surgery, and total knee replacement.

After years of chronic pain, numbness, and weakness, David Terrell’s life was transformed after two advanced spine surgeries ...

Introduction: Lumbar degenerative disease (LDD) is increasingly common, and causes back and leg pain that impairs quality of life. Lumbar interbody fusion (LIF) is effective for patients with neural ...

After going undrafted in the 2019 NFL Draft, former Texas Longhorns safety P.J. Locke earned his way into the NFL. Locke was waived from the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad originally but made the ...

Spine surgery is increasingly defined by a tension few outside the field fully see: the collision of clinical complexity and economic constraint. For surgeons like Oliver Tannous, MD, an orthopedic ...