The desire for a minimally invasive technique to restore intervertebral disc height for indirect decompression and sagittal ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two 510 (k) clearances for implants which restore the integrity of ...

Two surgical options yield similar results for degenerative disc disease. For some people with degenerative disease in the lumbar spine, artificial disc replacement (ADR) is superior in several ways ...

Your lumbar spine connects your pelvic bone to your ... within a few days to a few weeks. If you also had spinal fusion with your laminectomy, your recovery time will likely be longer — from ...

Doctors do spinal fusion surgery to help teens with scoliosis or other spine problems. It's called "fusion" because the surgery lets two ... Your health care provider also will let you know when you ...

Doctors do spinal fusion surgery to help kids and teens with scoliosis or other spine problems. It's called "fusion" because the surgery lets ... Your health care provider also will let you know when ...

The surgery can join vertebrae in the lumbar (lower back), thoracic (mid-back) or cervical spine (neck). The OHSU Spine Center is committed to trying the least-invasive options first. Your doctor may ...

Spinal fusion surgery to fuse a severely slipped vertebra with the vertebra below it and ... It ultimately may provide valuable information about which treatment methods will best increase mobility ...

By seeding our scaffold system with optimal bone-growing stem cells, we aim to achieve solid spinal fusion rates better than those attained with conventional substitutes or even the patient’s own bone ...

Lower back pain. As the population ages ... then stabilization by spinal fusion is needed. This surgery connects two more bones in the spine, fusing adjacent vertebrae to prevent motion.