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Spinal fusion surgery

Spinal fusion surgery, as well as open spine surgery, are the only surgical techniques that have a clinical term for when they fail; Failed Back Surgery Syndrome or FBSS. This type of condition is used to describe patients who have had a spinal surgery but have not received any relief in the amount of pain [...]

Back pain surgery or exercise can have the same effect

Patients with chronic lower back pain often undergo surgery to relieve some of the pain that comes from the condition. Other undergo cognitive exercise and intervention and both have shown that they are similarly effective. A study that has recently been published in The Spine Journal has found that after an 11 year follow up [...]

Keyhole Back Surgery

Back pain is common to nearly 80% of the human population, according to the current data from numerous studies, surveys and medical reports.  At some time in their lives and to an extent varying from minor aches to unrelenting pain and total disability, it seems that most people will suffer from disorders of the back.  [...]

Spinal fracture surgery saves lives

Recently released research says that the likelihood of death is reduced as much as 44% by surgery for sufferers of spinal fractures compared to those who are only taking painkillers and given bed rest. A particularly high rate of survival was received by those that were treated with a new pioneering procedure that inserts balloons [...]

Spinal fusion surgery may do more harm than good

A study has indicated that spinal fusion surgery that is commonly used to treat those that have spinal injuries, could leave the patients, in the long run, worse off, this coming after over 700 participants with lower back pain treated with fusion surgery and another 700 that received a more conservative treatment that included physical [...]

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