Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Spinal stenosis exercise programs should be focused on improving spinal flexibility, strengthening the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, and general overall conditioning to improve spinal ...

ALEXANDRIA — A fundraising rally will be held April 12 for a hockey player who suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury earlier this year. The rally for Jackson Drum will be held at Northstar ...

Background: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) utilizing time-dynamic pulses (TDPs) is an emergent field of neuromodulation that continuously and automatically modulates pulse parameters. We previously ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...

In September 2023, it emerged publicly that non-EU approved (non-CE marked) metal springs had been surgically implanted into a number of children who underwent spinal surgery at Children's Health ...

Those were the words of Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon following the publication of a 2017 report which criticised “unacceptable” delays in providing spinal surgery to these children.

The parents of a boy who had an unapproved spring implanted in a spinal surgery without their consent or knowledge have said the event amounts to a "complete breach of parental trust". In a ...

There was widespread concern within the government as well as patients and their families, particularly around the use of unapproved, non-CE-certified springs in three patients requiring spinal ...

Review does not identify any evidence of written management approval for use of uncertified devices, while a lack of information was given to parents of the experimental nature of procedures A review ...

Background/objective Degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine were managed with discectomy or laminectomy. This study aimed to compare these two surgical treatments in the postoperative revision ...