Spine Surgery Articles & Stories
Stem Cell Trials Attempt to Regrow Spinal Tissue
A clinical trial will soon be underway that will test how embryonic stem cells affect the regrowth of spinal cord tissues after injury. A meeting of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee discussed stem-cell research issues before giving the study the green light. The panel consiste... Read More
Myths and Facts About Back Pain
While the common cold claims the most sick days among U.S. workers under age 45, lower back pain comes in a strong second, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. In addition, it says, some 80 percent of adults are expected to experience lower back pain at some point in thei... Read More
Surgery Likely Better Than Exercise for Back Pain
The results of a four-year study on severe back pain show that spine surgery produces more and faster pain relief and greater improvement in function than exercise, physical therapy and analgesic drugs. The study, known as the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT), was published in t... Read More
Glimmer of Hope for Spine-Injury Victims
It's just in rats for now, but scientists have induced spinal cord regrowth by taking tiny nerves from the rib cage, bathing them in a growth-inducing protein, and then grafting them into the area of the cut spinal cord. "By using tiny nerves from the rib cage as cables connecting the severed... Read More
Waiting May Reduce Need for Back Surgery
New studies demonstrate that waiting may be the best alternative to back surgery. Approximately 1.5 million back surgeries are performed worldwide. These surgeries are performed to address painful problems associated with slipped or misaligned disks. Intransient sciatica and other lower back ... Read More
What is an Aneurysm?
WHAT IS AN AORTIC ANEURYSM? With Dr.Sateesh Babu Vascular Associates of Westchester Read More
FDA Approves Cervical Disc Implant Treatment
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the Prestige disc implant device to treat degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine. Medtronic has created the first artificial disc for insertion into the neck to allow a larger degree of movement than the traditional spinal fusion treatmen... Read More
Something Good About Spine Surgery
Spine Surgery was found a more effective treatment for degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis than were non-surgical methods according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Surgery is commonly used as a treatment for degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal sten... Read More
Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego report that experimental rats recovered from blood flow related paralysis after receiving grafts of human spinal stem cells. When damage occurs due to loss of blood flow to the spine's neural cells, applying human neural stem cells dire... Read More
Also Read
- Myths and Facts About Back Pain
- Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
- Something Good About Spine Surgery
- Waiting May Reduce Need for Back Surgery
- Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
- What is an Aneurysm?
- Waiting May Reduce Need for Back Surgery
- Myths and Facts About Back Pain
- What is an Aneurysm?
- Waiting May Reduce Need for Back Surgery
- Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
- What is an Aneurysm?
- Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
- Something Good About Spine Surgery
- FDA Approves Cervical Disc Implant Treatment
- Waiting May Reduce Need for Back Surgery
- Glimmer of Hope for Spine-Injury Victims
- Stem Cell Trials Attempt to Regrow Spinal Tissue
- Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
- What is an Aneurysm?
- Surgery Likely Better Than Exercise for Back Pain
- Waiting May Reduce Need for Back Surgery
- Human Stem Cells Return Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats
- Stem Cell Trials Attempt to Regrow Spinal Tissue
- Something Good About Spine Surgery
- What is an Aneurysm?
- Surgery Likely Better Than Exercise for Back Pain
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