German actor and model Boris Kodjoe shared a post on August 18, 2023, on his Instagram. The video showed the Addicted actor on a hospital bed while he spoke about his upcoming surgery. Boris opened up ...

April 30, 2012 (Miami, Florida) — Lumbar spinal fusion plus laminectomy appears to be a better option than laminectomy alone in terms of quality of life for patients with degenerative grade I ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Investigators of this randomized controlled trial found laminectomy performed in addition to lumbar spinal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to the letter from NASS President F. Todd Wetzel, MD, Aetna’s policy update originally indicated that ...

Surgery for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is very rare. Your doctor may recommend it if your condition is severe and if other treatments haven’t helped enough. Laminectomy. This is the most common ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis often involves your wrists, knees, and feet. But it can also affect your spine. Most of the time, this kind of back pain responds well to arthritis treatments such as biologics.

Study design: Retrospective outcome measurement study. Objectives: Patients suffering from malignant tumour disease and metastases to the spine develop a variety of clinical complaints including ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (FEBRUARY 2, 2021). Researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) conducted a randomized controlled trial in 47 patients with lumbar spinal stenosis to compare treatment outcomes and ...

The Lown Institute called out dozens of hospitals for performing unnecessary surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries with low back pain, putting patients at risk of serious complications with no evidence ...