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A Major Summary of Findings About Spinal Surgery Recommendations

Surgeons Solve the Dilemma of Classifying Thoracolumbar Spinal Fractures

Affected Chromosomal Spot Located in Males with Familial Idiopathic Scoliosis

What Do the Experts Have to Say About Invasive Treatment for Chronic Back Pain?

Intraoperative Navigation Good Tool for Spinal Stabilization Surgery

A New Concept in Spine Research: Response Shift Phenomena

X-rays No Longer Needed to Guide Nerve Blocks

Synovial Cyst of the Spine: What Is It?

Does Type of Bone Graft Used in Spinal Fusion Increase Risk of Infection?

Lower Rate of Infection with Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery

Spine Surgeons Practice Regarding Preoperative Osteoporosis Screening

When Spinal Fusion Fails: What's Next?

Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty: How Are They Holding Up?

Actual Cost of Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain

Do Bone Graft Substitutes Cause an Allergic Response?

Conservative Surgery Spares Bowel and Bladder Function

Bracing After Spine Surgery: Is It Really Needed?

Recalls on Donor Bone Tissue

Clinical Guideline for Antibiotic Prophylaxis Effective Tool for Surgeons

Patterns of Spine Fracture From Car Accidents

Five Key Questions in Diagnosing and Treating Ankylosing Spondylitis

Trigger Point Therapy: Is It Safe? Does It Work?

Arguments Against Biopsychosocial Model of Spine Care

Spinal Osteotomies Providing Good Functional Outcomes

Updates From the Orthopedic Spine World

Index for Spine Surgery May Be Helpful When Deciding Surgical Approach

Physicians Should Keep in Mind Possibility of Butterfly Vertebrae

Importance of Recognizing Back Pain that Requires Specialized Care

Spinal Cord Stimulation Reduces Pain From Failed Back Surgery

Low-Molecular Weight Heparin Best to Prevent Thromboembolism After Spine Surgery

New, Targeted Therapies for Arthritis

Surgery For Adult Scoliosis: When and Why

No Need for Bone Graft in Spinal Fusion

Patient Activation Related to Adherence to Physical Therapy After Spine Surgery

Vertebral Compression Fractures - Kyphoplasty or Conservative Care in the Older Patient

Gender, Osteoporosis and Vertebral Compression Fractures

Preventing Fall Related Vertebrtal Fractures

Needle Size and Imaging Used in Percutaneous Biopsies of the Spine

Understanding and Treating De-Novo Scoliosis in Adults

Spine Surgery For Achondroplasia

Whole Spine Imaging Study of Contortionists

Spinal Osteochondroma: Spectrum of a Rare Disease

What Do We Know About "Failed Back Surgery Syndrome"?

One-Minute, 12-Item Health Survey to Measure Effect of Treatment

Effect of Aquatic Exercise on Pain

Debate About Optimal Care for Spinal Fractures

Preventing Paralysis From Falls Out of Hunting Tree Stands

Comparing Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Vertebral Compression Fractures

Backs and Beds

Back Pain Is Unrelated to Age

The History of Spinal Disease in Medicine

Don't Depend on Patients Health Report After Motor Vehicle Accidents

Complaints of the Arm, Neck, and/or Shoulder Common in the Open Population

Success of Repeated Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

Best Way to Monitor Neurologic Function During Cervical Spine Surgery

Surgeons Advised to Avoid Presence-or-Absence Method for Intraoperative Monitoring

A friend of mine at work has suggested I try an intense training program he went through in order to get back to work after a long bout of low back pain. Our insurance doesn't cover it. He assures me it was worth it. Is something like this really worth the money?

Standarization of Back Pain Definitions

Predictors of Acute Neck and Back Pain Progression to Chronicity and Disability

Management Strategies for Rheumatic Disorders

Preventing Infections After Spinal Surgery

Test of Spinal Mobility Called Into Question

EMF As a Cause of Metal Implant Failure in Spinal Fusion

Modified Pfirrman Grading System

Performing Surgical Treatment for Congenital Scoliosis and Intraspinal Deformity at the Same Time Appears to Be Safe Option

Long-Term Results of Treatment for Burst Type Spinal Fractures

Most Common Cause of Disability: Neck and Back Pain

Finding a Substitute for Autologous Bone Graft

Identification of Target Sign and Diagnosis of Schwannomas

Should Spinal Fusion Be Done in One or Two Stages?

Risk Factors and Complications After Posterior Fusion for Scoliosis

Evidence Lacking for Treatment of Adult Scoliosis

Calcium Crystal Deposits in the Disc

When Surgery is Valuable for Herniated Disc

Predicting Results With Neuroreflexotherapy for Neck and Back Pain

Patients with Chronic Lower Back Pain Just as Active as People without Back Pain

Untreatable Pain From Osteoporosis Fractures May Be Controlled with Constant Morphine Injection to Spine

Greater Improvement in Neck and Back Pain After Naprapathic Therapy

Update Alert: ASIPP Releases 2007 Pain Management Guidelines

Identifying Schwannomatosis in Patients with Multiple Tumors

New Model for Treatment Decisions in Cancer Patients with Spinal Tumors

Review of Current Bone Graft Materials

Data Collection Needed for Less Common Cancers

Injection With Cement Compound Reduces Pain, Improves Function in Patients With Vertebral Compression Fractures

Case Report of Rare Spinal Tumor

Using Vacuum-Assisted Closure with Spinal Wound Infections

VAC System Used to Treat Spinal Wound Infection

Obesity Linked to Problems in Spine Surgery

MRI Detects Spinal Tuberculosis

Chronic Pain Patients Need a Breakthrough

Rare Complication After Spinal Surgery

Protocol For Treating Spinal Metastases After Tumor Removal

Review of Treatment Options for Osteoporotic Spine Fractures

Update on Treatment of Spondyloarthropathy

Three New Alternatives to Spinal Fusion

Spinal Cord Stimulation Hardware: The Next Generation

Measuring the Benefit of Neck or Back Surgery

Cost of Adverse Events with Spinal Cord Stimulation

A Working Definition of Disc Degeneration

Physical Therapists Increase Use of Spinal Manipulation for Back Pain

Sagittal Rotation Leads to Sagittal Translation in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Controlling Back Pain with Change in Attitude and Behavior

Right Patient, Right Site, Right Surgery

Unusual Case of Spinal Synovial Cyst

Update on the Source of Facet Joint Pain

New and Improved Treatment for Spinal Arthritis

Spine Surgeries on the Rise in the U.S.

Routine Lab Test After Disc Removal Advised

Doctors Review Scoliosis-Related Web Sites

Review of New Bone Substitute for Vetebral Fractures

Core Stability: What is It?

Medical or Alternative Treatment for Back Pain?

Simple Approach to Simple Back Pain: Simply Exercise

Advice or Exercise? The Low-Cost Way to Stabilize Your Back

Of Muscles, Posture, and Back Pain

New Report on Safety of Kyphoplasty

Recovery after First-Time Back Pain

Treating Chronic Back Pain: What Works Best?

New Findings about Spondylolysis in Young Athletes

Teenagers, Spine Fusion, and Heavy Metals

Getting to the Center of Back Pain

Disc Removal: Some or All?

The Long and The Short of Spinal Fusion

Don't Bend and Lift after Sitting for Hours

Back Pain Electric

Predicting Future Episodes of Back Pain

Equating Satisfaction and Results after Spine Fusion Surgery

Is 80 Too Old for Back Surgery?

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Opens Up Options

Follow-up on Total Disc Replacement

Trunk Exercises With and Without a Swiss Ball: Does It Make a Difference?

Back Pain in Alpine Ski Instructors

Update on Artificial Disc Replacement

Creepy Findings about Repetitive Use of the Spine

Surgeons Review Early Results of Disc Replacements

Quality of Life Improved with Vertebroplasty in Frail Elderly

The Pressure of Handling Sudden, Heavy Loads

The Second Coming of Back Pain

Getting to the Core of Back Pain

Summary of Findings Using Prolotherapy for Chronic Back Pain

Artificial Disc Compared to Spine Fusion

Whiplash Injury Treated by Physical Therapy

Spinal Discs under Pressure

Report on Back Pain in the Netherlands

Back Pain among Homemakers

Regaining Confidence Despite Chronic Back Pain

A Stable Spine Is a Healthy Spine

Facing the Fear of Back Pain Head On

Cracking the Code for Improved Healing of Spondylolysis

Effects of Smoking on Rehab for Chronic Back Pain

Remedy for Feeling Less Back Pain than You Bargained For

When Less is More for Rating Low-Back Impairment

National Trends in Health Care for Back Pain

There's More to Back Pain than Pain in the Back

Back Pain: It's Not Just For Adults

Looking Closely at the Muscles along the Spine

The Link between Back Pain and Old Age

Gunshot Fragments Can Lead to Lead Poisoning

Boeing Test Model Used to Measure Results of Spinal Fusion

Golfers, Learn to Backhand Back Pain

Kids, Backpacks, and Back Pain

Blood Clots and Spine Surgery

Ouch! The Health Care Costs of Back Pain

More Clues to Back Pain in Adults

Back Protection when Faced with Sudden and Shifting Loads

Bothered by Back Pain

A Shot in the Back for Back Pain

Three Cases of Paralysis after Lumbar Surgery

Fixing Severe Spine Fractures in Aging Adults

Low Back Pain and Physical Activity in an Israeli Town

Animal Model Used to Study Disc Degeneration in Humans

Novel Use of Titanium Cages for Spine Reconstruction Surgery

Oink if you Love a Stable Spine

Another Matrix Reloaded: New Treatment for Damaged Discs

Case Report of a Rare Spinal Injury

Getting Kids Back to Health with Physical Activity

Positive Encouragement, Usual Care, or Both after Disc Surgery?

Finding and Treating the Cause of Back-Related Testicular Pain

The Many Sides to Work-Related Back Pain

Predicting Results of Epidural Injections for Sciatica

A Measure of Patient Satisfaction after Back Surgery

Back Pain in the Golden Years

Mind and Body Matters for Getting Back to Work after Neck or Back Pain

Comparing Thought and Action in Patients with Low Back Pain

Bringing Home the Back Pain

First Trial of Radiation to Reduce Scar Tissue around Spinal Nerves

Spine Operations by Orthopedic Surgeons

Total Disc Replacement Replaces Spinal Fusion When All Else Fails

Early Results of Total Disc Replacement Reported

Pulsed or Thermal Radiofrequency for Back Pain?

Fitting the Worker to the Workplace

Comparing Spine Fusion with and without Growth Factors

Which is Worse: Neck Pain, Arm Pain, or Both?

Bracing for Scoliosis: 22 Years down the Road

Activity Not Linked to Back Pain in Kids

New Imaging Method May Someday Make Spine Surgery Easier

Nicotine's Effect on the Disc

Measuring Your Exertion while Exercising

Smoking, Obesity, and Your Back

A Review of Studies Using Radiofrequency for Neck and Back Pain

Pumping Up the Spine

Cementing the Spine

New Memory Coiling Spiral Replaces Center of Disc

Not All Disc Replacements Are Alike

Creative Surgical Solutions to Painful Back Problems

Computers and Medical Research

CT Scan Gives Insider View of Spinal Fusion

Finding Familiar Treatments for Unfamiliar Sources of Back Pain

Strength in Numbers for Successful Spinal Fusion

Drugs, Acupuncture, or Manipulation for Back Pain?

Returning to Work after Severe Back Pain

Back Pain in College Rowers

New Spinal Injection Treatment for Low Back Pain

Taking Sides on Low Back X-rays

Understanding the Risks of a New Treatment for Back Pain

School Kids' Backpacks May Not Carry the Blame for Back Pain

Back Pain and Backpacks

The Future of Disc Transplantation

Spinal Fusion Using Gene Therapy

Spine Loads During Lifting: Gender Matters

Aging Spines Speak to the Realities of "Pars Defects" in the Low Back

Spines of Pregnant Women Are Slow to Recover

Are Kids Packing Future Back Pain?

Experimenting with Cement for Lumbar Fusion

Still Searching for Results of Total Disc Replacement

Spine Bones Get a Boost from Electric Current

New Discovery Aids Spinal Fusion

Getting to the Nerve Root of Spinal Pain

Effect of Spinal Fusion on the Rest of the Spine

Making Exercise Attractive for People with Ankylosing Spondylitis

An Injured Disc's Effect on the Spinal Nerve

Comparing Two Diseases Affecting Bones: Osteoporosis and Spine Osteoarthritis

Back Bones Send a Painful Message

Why Do More Women Than Men Suffer Back Pain? Blame It on the Stork

Lumbar Fusion Can Be a Pain in the Sacroiliac

Making Sense of Joint Sense in the Low Back

Preventing Soccer Injuries May be a Stretch

Two Words to Help Back Pain: Exercise, Exercise

Seek-and-Destroy Mission for Facet Joint Pain

Traffic Crashes Can Be Hazardous to the Spine

Charging Up the Spine after Fusion Surgery

Joint Looseness May Explain Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy

Gender Differences Make a Difference when Lifting

Fragile Breakthrough: Spine Clinics Urged to Combat Osteoporosis

Absorbing the Newest Breakthroughs in Spine Fusion

Benchmark Results Obtained to Compare the Success of Spine Fusion

Cagey New Spine Fusion Techniques Packed for Success

Putting the Screws to Scoliosis Surgery

As If AS Isn't Enough

Rib Bone Connected to the . . . Tailbone?

Back Off Smoking

Expect Less and Get More after Back Surgery

The Sixth Sense of Back Pain

Posture Perfect

When Infection Affects the Spine

Breathe, and Lift

Get a Trade-in for Your Old, Worn-out Disc

Back Pain Got You Down?

Desktop or Laptop? Some Body-Friendly Advice for Computer Users

Pulling the Plug on Electrical Stimulation for Low Back Pain? Not Yet

Osteoarthritis Versus Osteoporosis: Researchers Have a Bone to Pick

Short but True: The Real Reason We Lose Height with Age

Early Education Reduces Back Pain in Children

Smokers: Don't Read This

Obesity and Back Problems: Connecting the Dots

It Takes a Village to Carry a Backpack

Most Likely to See a Chiropractor: Educated White Women Win

Teens and Exercise: Movement Skills Help Determine Whether Kids "Just Do It"

News Flash after the Hot Flash: Estrogen Replacement Is Linked to Back Pain in Postmenopausal Women

A Bad Back in the Saddle

For Elders, Lifting Can Be a Real Pain in the Back

Biting the Bullet to Avoid Going under the Knife

When Getting Back Patients Back to Work, Function Comes before Pain

MRI in the Operating Room: Seeing Is Believing, But Is It Worth the Effort?

Finding the Balance between Surgery and Conservative Treatment for Disc Herniation

For Back and Neck Pain, an Ounce of Prevention Is Worth--Almost Nothing?

Getting the Straight Story on Scoliosis Surgery

The TLSO Brace Puts a Halt to Progressive Spinal Curves of Scoliosis

The Foundations of Back Pain

Cracking the Thin Shell Surrounding the Causes of Adolescent Scoliosis

Sucking the Life into Spine Wounds

Putting the Squeeze on Old Yeller's Discs

Surgery or No Surgery? That Is the Question

The "Eyes" Have It

New Thoughts to Keep Back Problems from Becoming Chronic

Making Butts about Smoking Improves the Chance Smokers Will Quit

Slipping Back in Time to Keep Spines from Slipping Forward

Quitters Never Win--Except for Smokers Who Need Spine Fusion Surgery

Back Surgery, the Movie--Coming Soon to a Surgeon's Office Near You

Spines at Risk: Snowboarders Versus Skiers

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