Back decompression aims to relieve back pain by taking pressure off compressed spinal discs. There are surgical and nonsurgical methods of back decompression. Nonsurgical therapy includes spinal ...

Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health has added GPS-guided robotic spine surgery, becoming the first provider in the Philadelphia and South Jersey region to offer the technology, according to a Jan. 21 ...

A study in the International Journal of Spine Surgery researched the effectiveness of outpatient transforaminal decompression as an alternative to inpatient revision decompression procedures. The ...

What is nonsurgical spinal decompression? Nonsurgical spinal decompression refers specifically to therapies that are designed to relieve pressure and ease pain, without requiring you to have surgery ...

The majority of patients who undergo a minimally invasive lumbar decompression procedure can avoid surgery for at least five years, a Cleveland Clinic study found. Minimally invasive lumbar ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Results showed several surgical and patient factors were significantly associated with conversion from ...

Treating curvature of the spine as an adult often involves pain relief medications, exercise, or spinal injections to soothe symptoms. Surgery may only be necessary for adults with severe curvature or ...

This Morning medical expert Dr Zoe Williams has revealed that she will undergo major spinal surgery as a "last resort" to try ...

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...