The placement of orthopedic screws and rods during spinal fusion surgery should vary depending on whether you’re a man or a ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Many Louisiana children and teens struggle with AIS or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. It’s a side-to-side curve of the spine greater than 10 degrees. It’s also the most ...

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

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

Spinal fusion surgery connects two or more vertebrae of your spine together. The surgery is done to help stabilize your spine, reduce pain, or address spine issues, such as scoliosis. Spinal fusion ...

A neurosurgeon says there is a new procedure that has been shown to reduce back pain for patients suffering from spinal stenosis and is considered an alternative to spinal fusion surgery. TOPS, which ...

Routinely collected data on patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery do not provide a valid basis for assessing and comparing hospital performance on patient safety outcomes, reports a study in Spine ...