Medical device company Life Spine has earned FDA clearance for its Gruve+ cervical plating system. The design integrates with Life Spine’s cervical spacers, according to a Feb. 18 press release.

Cervical artificial disc replacement (ADR) has transformed the way healthcare professionals treat degenerative disc disease and other spinal conditions. Unlike traditional spinal fusion, ADR preserves ...

Steroid shots have limited efficacy in reducing pain and disability associated with chronic back pain, an updated data ...

Epidural steroid injections demonstrated limited efficacy in reducing back pain and disability, according to a systematic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Orthopnea is the sensation of breathlessness when lying down that goes away when ...

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FOX CHASE (WPVI) -- Cervical cancer cases are going up among women over the age of 30. However, some new approvals by the Food & Drug Administration could change that. "The biggest thing that we ...

Notalgia paresthetica (NP) is not associated with cancer. However, it is a sign of a pinched spinal nerve. If you have intense itching, burning, or tingling along your shoulder blade — an itch just ...

Only 14 cases in our cohort (27%) involved the spinal cord directly (intramedullary or pial fistulas). While these shunting cervical lesions are commonly referred to colloquially as “dural AV fistulas ...

“It’s a muscle that’s, kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve and it was shooting down my leg. I thought I was gonna have to have hip replacement. Thank God my hips are fine ...