Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure doctors can use to treat many different problems in your back or neck. The surgery joins two or more of your vertebrae together, which can: stabilize and align ...

From clinical outcomes to costs, here are the key discoveries in spine surgery this year: 1. A study from Plano-based Texas Back Institute found positive clinical results for patients having hybrid ...

Ankle fusion and total joint replacement are the two main options for definitive treatment of advanced arthritis. This large British study found that revision rates were significantly higher with ...

Whether to have back surgery can be a controversial decision but a new procedure to reverse it may be even more controversial. Bobbie Jo Ramirez says she would never have attempted to jump or catch a ...

UNDATED Knee fusion eases the pain, but also takes away a person's ability to bend that knee. HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo says new and better implants and surgeries have taken the place of many ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. For a long time, spinal fusion was the only surgery to treat ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Kyra Condie first noticed the pain in her back more than a decade ago, when she started rock climbing competitively. It wasn't a searing pain. More of a constant ache. But she said it ...

A neurosurgeon says there is a new procedure that has been shown to reduce back pain for patients suffering from spinal stenosis and is considered an alternative to spinal fusion surgery. TOPS, which ...

Tigers Woods won the Masters championship on Sunday, one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, and he might have his spinal fusion surgery to thank for that. Woods, 43, had the procedure in ...

"I'm walking a lot right now," Carson Daly said on Thursday's TODAY, calling in to give an update on his health after undergoing his second back surgery in three months Carson Daly is opening up to ...