High school football and construction work have taken their toll on Justin Loebel's back. Though he is just 43, Loebel has already undergone fusion surgery to alleviate chronic back pain. It didn't ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) comprises narrowing of the spinal canal with subsequent neural compression, and is frequently associated with symptoms of neurogenic claudication. To establish a diagnosis ...

Inflammatory and injury-induced skeletal pain are common conditions, and both conventional nonselective NSAIDs and the newer cyclo-oxygenase-2-specific inhibitors are widely used as post-traumatic and ...

The National Basketball Association, better known worldwide as the NBA, is a professional basketball league of the United States. It is also the most sought-after basketball league in the world and ...

A 66-year-old former distance runner came in with neck pain that undermined her work and daily life. On paper, she violated several pillars of the classic disc replacement “ideal patient” — multilevel ...

In this video is a surgical demonstration of a left sided L4/5 unilateral biportal endoscopy microdiscectomy in a 43-year-old man with profound and progressive neurologic weakness.

Objective: To perform an analysis of the anatomy of the great vessels relevant to the access for anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF), determining the level of their bifurcation, the distance ...