Back pain and spinal disorders affect millions of people, yet many hesitate to seek treatment because of misconceptions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

The most important question in outpatient spine surgery is not what surgeons can do. It is what they should do. Krishna Satyan, MD, a neurosurgeon at Dallas Neurosurgical & Spine, sees a meaningful ...

When Andrew Zhang, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, arrived at the Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania, endoscopic spine surgery was not part of the orthopedic spine program’s routine ...

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, ...

If surgery center leaders can identify and add an up-and-coming procedure to their list of approved procedures prior to their competitors doing such, they may be able to corner the market and profit ...