Surgeons use a bony projection at the back of each vertebra called the spinous process to check the robot’s accuracy, laying ...
Doctors in Calgary started performing endoscopic spine surgery in January 2025. According to Alberta Health Services, nearly ...
Leading spine societies have issued a powerful new consensus statement urging insurers to reimburse for interbody devices in ...
A Manitoba retiree says he was in disbelief last week after learning the province still won't reimburse him $77,000 for an ...
Spine surgery is rapidly evolving as minimally invasive procedures, robotics, motion-preserving implants and AI-driven technologies transform how complex spinal conditions are treated.  Across the ...
Alberta Health Services is touting a new, minimally invasive spinal surgery that has slashed recovery times from months to ...
He couldn't walk inside his own home. For more than a decade, a 70-year-old patient lived with crushing back pain that radiated down both legs, steali ...
Former WWE Women's Tag Team Champion Piper Niven announced Wednesday night that she has undergone neck fusion surgery.
Patients undergoing a recently introduced endoscopic spinal surgery at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre are spending hours ...
HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center in Phoenix has added awake spine surgery, according to a May 4 feature from the health system. Surgeons with the hospital used awake spine surgery for an L4-L5 ...
Pedicle screw fixation is a cornerstone of spinal fusion surgery due to its superior biomechanical stability. While ...
Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, but also the thousands of people she has met online who are, like her, recovering from spine surgery and often, like her, ...