Newswise — Children’s Hospital Los Angeles utilizes an enhanced recovery protocol for youth who have undergone spinal fusion surgery for conditions such as adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. For ...

According to the North American Community Hub Statistics (NCHstats), back pain affects four in every five people in the United States. The discomfort and loss of mobility that it causes result in 264 ...

Over 400,000 spinal fusion surgeries are performed annually in the United States and as the population ages, that number is expected to rise. The goal of many spinal fusion surgeries is to reduce or ...

Four months after cervical fusion surgery, a man still could not lift his left hand to touch his head. His left shoulder remained painful, sore, and tight despite electrotherapy and other supportive ...

When Jonathan Baskin, MD, began his neurosurgical career nearly 25 years ago, spinal fusion was used more selectively for degenerative conditions. Today, increasingly sophisticated technology has made ...