Patients experience less back pain at rest and during activity and have improved function following treatment with vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spinal compression fractures, Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Spinal cord compression is a debilitating condition that many patients with advanced cancer experience. Until now, patients often had to spend multiple days traveling back and forth to undergo ...

PURPOSE: To report on the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma presenting with spinal cord compression (SCC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Of 1,462 children with neuroblastoma registered ...

Our fat tissue could be used to make our bones regrow, with scientists successfully using adipose cells to repair spinal ...

Among patients with compression fractures, outcomes of disability, back pain, and progression of anterior body compression were similar among those treated without a brace or with soft or rigid braces ...

This week we are going to discuss a fracture of the spine which occurs many times spontaneously as a result of osteoporosis. The spinal compression fracture is a fracture of the vertebral body (the ...

THURSDAY, May 10, 2018 -- In a new study, a widely used form of spinal surgery was no more effective than placebo in treating spinal fracture pain for people with osteoporosis. Researchers and experts ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new imaging approach to more accurately assess blood flow in the spinal ...

“Oh, my aching back!” Almost everyone at one time or another has uttered that unfortunately common phrase. In fact, statistics show that lower back pain affects from 50 to 80 percent of adults each ...