Enabling technology value index: Enabling tech plays a crucial role in advancing spine surgical care. However, understanding the value of these technologies, especially with the impact on outcomes and ...

A UK study found more than 80% of 80 SMA type 1 children on a DMT had scoliosis or other abnormal spinal curvature needing ...

Common reasons for back pain include muscle strain, disk damage, and some chronic conditions, such as fractures due to osteoporosis. Potential treatments include heat therapy, acupuncture ...

The result of this literature review documents a remarkable list of various quantitative radiologic criteria applied to describe lumbar spinal stenosis. Measurement of antero-posterior diameter ...

Stryker (NYSE: SYK) + announced a deal to sell its U.S. spine implants business to investment firm Viscogliosi Brothers, which will call the new company VB Spine. Also after the market closed ...

Kayleigh Dixon has spent her adult life struggling with a range of back and spinal conditions. These include a condition caused dural ectasia which sees swelling of the "sac" that surrounds the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two 510(k) clearances for implants which restore the integrity of the spine in tumor and infection cases. According to the FDA documents, the ...

A fractured vertebra (bone in the spine) can result from trauma (like a car accident), osteoporosis, or cancer spreading to the bones. It can cause severe back pain that worsens while breathing.

Shunting vascular lesions of the spine are typically characterized by location. Classifications of dural arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) of the brain focus more on the presence or absence of retrograde ...

Kyla Barton, 14, suffered paralysis from the waste down after two of three scheduled surgeries at Mayo Clinic to remove a tumor from her spine that was causing it to curve abnormally. The family ...

As technology continues to advance, so too does the possibility of better outcomes in spine surgery. As more physicians lean into AI, software, mapping capabilities and robotics, patients are expected ...

"A dural tear by foreign material that too knife on the dorsal spine having a CSF leak is not something to be discharged so early. Agreed we even discharge spinal intra dural tumour on 3rd day.