For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior foraminotomy provides outcomes comparable to those of the more commonly performed anterior cervical discectomy, reports a randomized clinical trial ...

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...

Cervical degenerative disc disease occurs when the functional spinal unit breaks down. It can lead to disabling pain and neurological dysfunction, particularly when spinal nerves or the spinal cord is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings from a recently published study showed the removal of a degenerative posterior longitudinal ligament ...

1. Outpatient spine surgery growth in hospital outpatient department is growing faster than in ASCs. A December 2017 article in Spine found: • Outpatient hospitals reported the largest growth in ...

This is a list of 35 ambulatory surgery centers that exclusively or primarily host spinal procedures. Please contact Laura Miller at lmiller@beckershealthcare.com for questions, comments or updates ...

Posterior percutaneous endoscopic cervical foraminotomy and discectomy (P-PECD) is a minimally invasive technique for the treatment of degenerative cervical radiculopathy. The O-arm, an intraoperative ...

BOSTON, April 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- KICVentures announced today the issuance of a patent for SpineFrontier's laminoplasty device LESplasty. The patent was issued on March 26th, 2019 and ...

In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, it is uncertain whether decompression surgery alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion. We conducted ...