Orthopedic surgeon Juan Toribio, MD, and VisAR augmented-reality navigation co-inventor Wendell Gibby, MD, have performed the first-ever immersive 3D spinal surgery using augmented reality guidance ...

Brad Smith is the third person in the world to get a brain chip implant with Elon Musk's Neuralink, and the first nonverbal ALS patient to do so.

A man from Cannock Wood whose skull is literally detaching from his body has launched a plea for life-saving surgery and to ...

The Atec PTP Corpectomy suite includes: The Sigma LIF corpectomy access system is designed to optimize lateral corpectomy exposure of the thoracolumbar spine with enhanced surgical workflow and ...

After this, your healthcare provider may order an X-ray of the spine. However, an X-ray can only provide clues as to whether or not you have a herniated disc. The gold standard or definitive test for ...

The patient was admitted to our hospital to investigate the cause of her incomplete paralysis after the local hospital performed catheterization and a spinal X-ray examination that revealed no visible ...

All patients underwent spinal X-ray examination standing, with Cobb’s angle and global kyphosis angle (GK) measured on anteroposterior and lateral films using Surgimap software. Statistical analysis ...

Strengthening and stretching exercises for the lower back can help stabilize the lower spine and support the upper body. Examples include the plank and knee-to-chest stretches. Stretching the back ...

Lower back pain can be a sign of cancer, typically when the cancer has spread from other parts of the body to the spine. It can also occur when cancer of a nearby organ, such as colon cancer, has ...

A drug originally developed to treat a rare neurological disease that weakens nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord may also ... the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also ...

An upper gastrointestinal series, barium-enema films, a gall-bladder series, skull films and posteroanterior and lateral ... normal state. X-ray examination of the cervical spine 6 months after ...