Stanley Hoang, MD, performed the world’s first awake spinal fusion using a dual approach, KSLA reported Dec. 10. Dr. Hoang, who also performed LSU Health Shreveport’s (La.) first awake spinal ...
Dr. Stanley Hoang with Ochsner LSU Health recently completed the first-ever awake dual approach spinal fusion surgery. Using ...
Moving complex spine to ASCs saves 60%, but professionals warn that standard facilities aren't ready, as it takes ...
In this Woman's Doctor segment, there's a new surgery to alleviate low back and leg pain. Mercy Medical Center Neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Park, pioneered the new minimally invasive spinal-fusion ...
Wenzel Spine launched the Stand-alone lumbar interbody fusion procedure using the VariLift-Lx device, the devicemaker said Aug. 29. Varilift-Lx is the only standalone posterior lumbar interbody fusion ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Many Louisiana children and teens struggle with AIS or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. It’s a side-to-side curve of the spine greater than 10 degrees. It’s also the most ...
Orthopedic surgeons need to adapt low back procedures based on a person’s sex Men have narrower pelvises than women, making it harder to place rods and screws in a straight line If not anticipated, ...
Dr. Abbasi began the tour in Karachi, Pakistan, at Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College, where he worked closely with Prof. Salman Sharif, Head of Neurosurgery. More than 30 highly engaged ...
Rheumatoid arthritis often involves your wrists, knees, and feet. But it can also affect your spine. Most of the time, this kind of back pain responds well to arthritis treatments such as biologics.
The FDA approved a new type of surgery for scoliosis in 2019. But Aetna declined to cover it for a 12-year-old girl in ...
A neurosurgeon says there is a new procedure that has been shown to reduce back pain for patients suffering from spinal stenosis and is considered an alternative to spinal fusion surgery. TOPS, which ...
If you live with constant lower back pain, surgery can start to look like the only way out. Yet new research from the ...