Jeffrey Carlson, MD, performed a three-level lumbar fusion on a 37-year-old patient at Newport News-based Coastal Virginia Surgery Center. The procedure, done March 3, was one of the first three-level ...

When the Referral Doesn’t Match the Framework A 58-year-old project manager presented with two-level lumbar disease and a ...

In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, it is uncertain whether decompression surgery alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion. We conducted ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Preoperative osteoporosis treatment lowered the risks of osteoporosis-related complications and revision surgery ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A depression screening before lumbar fusion was associated with decreased complications, ED utilizations and ...

The question is no longer whether patients use cannabis — it’s what it means for their surgical outcomes. A recent study takes a closer look at this very issue in patients undergoing elective lumbar ...

Costs for spinal fusion vary substantially by region, with costs being lowest in the Midwest and highest in the Northeast, according to the new research by Dr. W. Ryan Spiker and colleagues of ...