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

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...

Robert T. Greenfield, MD, a spine surgeon with Resurgens Orthopaedics in Atlanta, discusses the benefits and challenges of minimal access spine surgery, and its natural progression to become the ...

An endoscopic neurectomy is a minimally invasive procedure that strategically cuts the medial branch nerves (small nerves on your facet joints). We offer endoscopic neurectomies for low back pain.

Surgical treatments for spinal stenosis include laminectomy, discectomy, and spinal fusion. A doctor may recommend surgery for spinal stenosis in severe cases or if nonsurgical methods do not help ...

Lumbar decompression surgery aims to release compressed nerves in the lower back. This procedure may ease pain and improve mobility in those with spinal conditions. Conditions such as herniated disks, ...

How does basal vertebral nerve ablation compare to traditional back surgery? A new procedure called basal vertebral nerve ablation may provide long-term relief for adults with chronic vertebrogenic ...

Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus is changing the future of medical procedures by becoming the first pediatric hospital in the world to provide robotic spine surgeries. “The ...

A neurosurgeon at Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital has performed Staten Island’s first Total Posterior Spine System procedure, according to a recent announcement. The procedure is an ...

Dr. Carrie Jose, in her latest Health and Wellness column, explains why back surgery is rarely the answer, and what the first ...