Michael Markmiller was in excruciating pain for years. The 53-year-old couldn’t walk more than 100 meters without his legs going numb or stand up straight without sharp pains going down his legs. The ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the limiting factors are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have made far more ...

According to the North American Community Hub Statistics (NCHstats), back pain affects four in every five people in the United States. The discomfort and loss of mobility that it causes result in 264 ...

Of all the back surgeries, a spinal fusion is probably the most dreaded, but that could change thanks to a breakthrough procedure pioneered right here in Southwest Florida. A local surgeon is ...

Dr. Hamid Abbasi liked what he saw from the live X-ray images of his patient’s lower back. Six dark arrows on a monotone display revealed screws he drove into Tina Wallace’s spine to boost its ...

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, ...

Jason M. Cuellar, MD, PhD is a fellowship-trained, board-certified orthopedic spinal surgeon. He attended medical school at Stanford University, residency training at NYU-Hospital for joint diseases ...

Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, but also the thousands of people she has met online who are, like her, recovering from spine surgery and often, like her, ...