A Connecticut woman spent more than a decade living with back pain so severe she feared she wouldn’t be able to stand at her ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Local doctors are advising patients to carefully evaluate their options before opting for surgery to address neck or back pain. Dr. William McClellan, a spine surgeon at OrthoCincy ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — According to the National Center for Health Statistics, more than 1.2 million spinal surgeries are performed nationally each year. But sometimes the pain doesn't go away. Now, a ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A relatively new procedure at Southcoast Health could be life-changing for patients experiencing chronic back pain. According to the National Institutes of Health, back ...

This study lends quantitative evidence to support the popular idea that patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis improve more with surgical intervention than those who have ...

Arthrex's technology allows surgeons to remove the herniated part of the disc through a single incision of less than one centimeter. Lumbar spine disc herniations were previously treated utilizing a ...

Dr. Carrie Jose, in her latest Health and Wellness column, explains why back surgery is rarely the answer, and what the first ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spine surgeons at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) reported promising findings for adolescent athletes suffering from pars fracture, a common cause of adolescent back pain ...

There are certain symptoms that seem obviously linked together: If you have heartburn and regurgitation, the signs point to gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. If you have bad headaches, nausea, ...

A new screening tool, the A-tool, identified axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) in more than 30% of patients with chronic back pain. The questionnaire tool showed varying sensitivity and specificity ...