Whether it’s a dull ache or sharp spasm, pain between the shoulder blades can be caused by a variety of things. It can be due ...

Good habits can protect your back, too, said Dr. Patricia Zheng, an associate professor in the orthopedic surgery department ...

Neurological spine surgeon David Yam, MD, has joined the Spine Center at Prosser Memorial Health in Walla Walla, Wash. The ...

Water-based workouts can reduce the load on your spine and joints. This especially helps when degenerative changes progress or become “bone on bone,” which means the disc and its shock-absorbing ...

The vertebral column comprises individual vertebral bones with spinal discs between each bone. Your spinal cord goes through a canal in your spine. Between each pair of vertebrae are a right and a ...

Disks are the round cushions that sit between the bones of your spine (vertebrae). They act like shock absorbers, and let you bend and move without your bones rubbing together. When one of the ...

Often, a procedure is performed to close the space that’s left when the disc is removed and restore the spine to its original length. Patients have two options: Artificial cervical disc ...

The clinical trial will evaluate the PerQdisc device for patients suffering from degenerative disc disease, according to a March 4 news release. The system is an alternative to spinal fusion and disc ...

Total disc replacement (TDR ... The studies that did not report the variation were excluded. A PRISMA diagram is shown in Figure 1. Patients with degenerative lumbar spine disease require surgical ...

Due to the central nature of the canal narrowing, often both spinal nerve roots are compressed giving the patient symptoms in both legs. Unlike conditions such as intervertebral disc ruptures ...