Robotic spine surgery helped Donna Alonso overcome chronic back pain after traditional treatments failed. Learn how this ...

Spine surgery complications do not necessarily surface in the operating room. The conditions for breakdown are laid long before a patient ever reaches the table. From the outside, the work looks ...

With more years in practice, spine surgeons say their threshold for recommending surgery has evolved toward discernment. Variables such as advances in outpatient techniques and anesthesia have ...

Here are four studies illustrating the state of outpatient spine surgery and where it’s headed. 1. Outpatient spine procedures grew among Medicare patients between 2010 and 2021, with significant ...

Chronic back pain can severely impact daily life, limiting mobility and diminishing quality of life. Many patients hesitate to consider surgery, fearing its effectiveness or the potential risks ...

The rates of death after emergency spine fracture surgery in older adults are high, but how do they compare to emergency surgeries for other common fractures in older adults, such as hip fractures?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

Virtua Health, the largest health system in southern New Jersey, has introduced a significant advancement in spine surgery. Virtua Health is the first organization in the Philadelphia and South Jersey ...

A PGI Chandigarh study reveals Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY has markedly improved access to complex spine surgeries. Of 410 ...

Medicare is reviewing whether seniors should undergo spine operations at same-day surgery centers, the government-run health program announced Wednesday, five months after a USA TODAY Network-Kaiser ...

From January 2023 to December 2024, 410 patients underwent spine surgeries in PGI and out of these 276 received financial aid ...