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 ...

Conventional open laminectomy has long been considered one of the important surgical options for lumbar central stenosis owing to its positive outcomes. However, newer approaches have emerged as ...

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...

Post Lumbar Surgery Syndrome (PLSS) is a condition in which patients experience incomplete pain relief after lumbar surgery (including laminectomy, spinal fusion with internal fixation, and nuclectomy ...

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 ...

Key Takeaways Prehabilitation might help older people recover better from spinal fusion surgeryPatients 75 and older who got ...

OKC Thunder guard Nikola Topić is expected to be ready for the start of NBA training camp after undergoing back surgery, the ...

Topic’s latest surgery comes after a rookie year delayed by injury and a second season interrupted by cancer treatment.

Tiger Woods underwent microdecompression surgery of the lumbar spine for nerve impingement in his lower back, he announced via X on Friday. “The surgery went smoothly,” Woods said in the statement. “I ...