Patients who underwent lumbar spinal fusion surgery had nearly a three times greater risk of developing deep surgical-site infections if they had previous surgery in the same area, Dutch researchers ...

When chronic back pain began to erode the quality of life for Peter Quinn, a 62-year-old financial services professional from ...

Patients whose lumbar spinal stenosis was treated with decompression surgery plus fusion ended up no less disabled than those who had decompression alone, but they did lose more blood, stay ...

No significant association was seen between type of index operation and need for revision surgery among patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS), according to a cohort study. Among 328 ...

Degenerative disc disease affects up to 40% of all patients with low back pain. It can lead to spinal instability; that is, the inability of the spine to limit excessive or abnormal spinal ...

LEWISVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orthofix Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:OFIX), a leading global spine and orthopedics company, today announced the publication of new data from a prospective, multicenter ...

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion ...

Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have secured a $352,213 NIH R21 grant to create the ...

"Low bone density is a known risk factor for vertebral fractures, and there is a recent emphasis by spinal surgeons to evaluate and treat this prior to elective spine fusion." Spinal fusion is a very ...

Coding for lumbar spinal fusion procedures in ASCs or outpatient centers is much different than coding for spinal fusion in the inpatient setting, according to the American Academy of Professional ...