Original Medicare considers spinal decompression therapy an experimental procedure. However, it may cover a specific type of this procedure, percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression (PILD ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Background/objective Degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine were managed with discectomy or laminectomy. This study aimed to compare these two surgical treatments in the postoperative revision ...

Spina bifida is a congenital defect in which an infant's spine and spinal cord do not close or develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine. One of every 3,000 newborns is believed to have ...

Evan has been an honorary Ram since URI football drafted him in 2013. He was born with spina bifida, a spinal cord defect that left him paralyzed from his lowest abdominal level down. He moves, ...