This is a minimally invasive alternative to more invasive laminectomy or laminectomy plus fusion surgery. The surgeon implants a U-shaped device between two vertebrae in your lower back.

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Only a small number of people are able to get artificial disk surgery because it only works on a few disks in your lower back. But if your doctor thinks this is an option, they will replace your ...

evere or progressive weakness is one of the clearest indications for neurosurgical intervention, and you should follow up ...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — After 30 years of surgeries, medications, and chronic pain, Sue Mundy is finally walking pain-free, and she ...

To its credit, surgery (endoscopic or the traditional lumbar-disc repair) does relieve lower-back pain in 85 to 90 percent of cases, docs say. "Yet the relief is sometimes temporary," says ...

While visiting Utah, Christine Seppi experienced sudden, severe abdominal and back pain. A rare diagnosis—an abdominal aortic ...