Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video from the Open Operating Theatre, Klaus John Schnake, MD, discusses how to perform an open, ...

The minimally invasive lumbar decompression (mild) procedure provides pain relief and improved physical function for at least a year in patients suffering from lumbar spinal stenosis, according to a ...

We retrospectively reviewed a prospectively collected database to identify elderly patients who underwent 1–2 levels lumbar decompression surgery (D-group) or fusion surgery (F-group) for LSS with ...

Posterolateral fusion with decompression (posterolateral fusion) has been advocated for minimal neural complication compared with posterior/transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with decompression ...

To the Editor: Försth et al. (April 14 issue) 1 found that in patients with lumbar stenosis, even in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis, decompression surgery plus fusion surgery does not ...

What is lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) and who does it affect? Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a degenerative, age-related narrowing of the lower spinal canal that causes pressure on the nerves, leading ...

While Medicare doesn’t usually cover nonsurgical spinal decompression due to a lack of sufficient evidence, it may cover a specific surgical procedure called percutaneous image-guided lumbar ...

Lumbar radiculopathy is inflammation of a nerve root in the lower back that causes symptoms in the back and down the leg. Radiculopathy is pain and other neurological symptoms caused by the pinching ...

In spine surgery, some of the most important decisions are made when something appears to be going wrong. A neuromonitoring signal suddenly disappears. An alarm sounds. A tracing drops. The surgeon ...

Background The optimal components of postoperative exercise programmes following single-level lumbar discectomy have not been identified. Facilitating lumbar multifidus (LM) function after discectomy ...

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedures are coded 22630 for a lumbar initial interspace arthrodesis, posterior interbody technique, which ...