Christian Yelich was in good spirits after undergoing a microdiscectomy, a procedure designed to alleviate pain and nerve issues in the patient's back. He did not, however, want to dig too deeply into ...

NEW YORK — Six-year outcomes of a randomized trial in Finland showed that patients with sciatica who received a lumbar microdiscectomy experienced significantly less pain and disability than patients ...

SAN DIEGO — The differences in outcomes for obese and non-obese patients undergoing minimally invasive lumbar discectomies are not statistically significant, a speaker said at the International ...

Background Lumbar disc herniation has a prevalence of up to 58% in the athletic population. Lumbar discectomy is a common surgical procedure to alleviate pain and disability in athletes. We ...

HUNTLEY, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life Spine, Inc., a medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets products for the surgical treatment of spinal disorders, announced today ...

The literature was systematically searched in April 2013 using a combination or part combination of the following terms: intraoperative, perioperative, epidural, steroids, methylprednisolone, ...

Tiger Woods had yet another surgery on his lower back on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he ...

Background. This study is a descriptive review of the literature aimed at examining the efficacy of the use of intraoperative epidural steroids in lumbar disc surgery, a matter that remains ...