Christopher Shaffrey, MD, has seen spine care evolve through rapid innovation.  But as outcomes and complication rates face greater scrutiny, the chief of the spine division at Durham, N.C.-based Duke ...

Hello, dear readers! Welcome to our monthly letters column. We’ve had some interesting mail, so we’ll get right to it.

Chronic back pain and spinal disorders have become increasingly common due to sedentary lifestyles, stress, and improper posture. Among these, slip disc (herniated disc) is a painful condition that ...

Experienced lifters ensure that they don’t bend their spine under load, especially while doing squats or deadlifts. However, ...

Correspondence to Shreya McLeod, Discipline of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Allied Health, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia; ...

Lima, OH – November 2025 – Dr. Fumich, a board-certified and fellowship-trained Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at the Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio, has successfully performed the region’s first two-level ...

Guidelines for endoscopic treatment of postinflammatory pancreatic and peripancreatic fluid collections. Recommendations of the Endoscopic Surgery Section of the Association of Polish Surgeons, the ...

1 Department of Nursing, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China 2 Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China Purpose: Chronic low back pain (LBP) is a common ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Objective: To investigate whether limited discectomy versus aggressive disc removal influences postoperative neurological recovery ...

From clinical outcomes to costs, here are the key discoveries in spine surgery this year: 1. A study from Plano-based Texas Back Institute found positive clinical results for patients having hybrid ...