A new position statement from the International Osteoporosis Foundation's (IOF) Committee of Scientific Advisors Fracture ...

The reputation of spine surgery was built in another era. Patients still imagine a long incision down the back, muscles stripped from the spine and months spent recovering in a brace. For decades, ...

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 ...

Lauren Matteini, MD, now approaches many cervical spine cases by trying to disqualify the operation she would prefer to perform. The operation is cervical disc replacement. “In my practice now, I’m ...

The procedure is being called a major advancement in surgical precision.

Prehabilitation can help the elderly recover better and suffer fewer complications from spinal fusion surgery, a new study says. Patients 75 and older who underwent a four-week prehab program prior to ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, ...

Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, but also the thousands of people she has met online who are, like her, recovering from spine surgery and often, like her, ...