Despite that, rates of fusion surgery in the U.S. ballooned more than 200 percent throughout the 1990s, and the number of ...

Metal rods, screws, resins or bone grafts have traditionally been the options for patients facing spinal fusion surgery, but a team of engineers at the University of Missouri are working to change ...

The research will focus on recruiting and turning stem cells into bone cells for the spines of humans, cats and dogs.

A neurosurgeon at Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital has performed Staten Island’s first Total Posterior Spine System procedure, according to a recent announcement. The procedure is an ...

Hospitals conducted more than 200,000 unnecessary spinal fusion/laminectomy or vertebroplasty procedures on Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older from 2020 to 2022. This generated about $1.9 billion in ...

Woods said on social media that he had lumbar disc replacement surgery on Friday. It is the seventh back surgery of his ...

A sports injury expert breaks down Tiger Woods' seventh back surgery and a potential timetable for his return.

More than 200,000 “low-value” back surgeries for older adults were billed to Medicare from 2020 to 2023 — totaling one ...

Tiger Woods has survived 7 back surgeries, a near-fatal crash, and countless injuries. A PGA coach examines the brutal ...

Aetna issued a coverage policy update for laminotomy with arthrodesis procedures and continues to consider additional edits for upcoming policy revision, according to a letter from North American ...