A herniated disk may be repaired with minimally invasive endoscopic laser-assisted spine surgery, an advanced technology to treat spine conditions.
Degenerative back pain, due to loss of bone or tissue, is often age-related. Rheumatologic back pain is an autoimmune condition.
Cervical cancer occurs when cells inside the cervix grow abnormally or a tumor starts to form.
Cervical radiculopathy occurs when a nerve in the neck becomes irritated, resulting in pain, numbness and/or weakness in the shoulders and arms.
If your doctor diagnoses you or your child with scoliosis, it means he is seeing a side-to-side curve in the spine.
Sacroiliac joint fusion is a minimally invasive procedure, done under image guidance, to place titanium implants across the sacroiliac joint for stability.
Some children are born with or develop irregularities of the skull and/or spine (called craniosynostosis). Some benefit from surgical correction procedures.
Artificial disk replacement can treat degenerative disk disease in the cervical spine, including the neck, and for the lumbar spine and lower back.
For patients with spine cancer, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) delivers high doses of radiation in fewer and painless treatment sessions.
Spinal deformities affecting curvature or rotation (such as scoliosis, kyphosis and lordosis) can be caused by a birth defect, age or trauma.