While the source of back pain – including pain radiating down from the back into the buttocks and lower extremities – can be difficult to diagnose, there are a number of signs and symptoms that may ...

What is spinal decompression surgery? Spinal decompression surgery is performed to relieve symptoms related to compression of the spinal cord or its roots, which may include back or neck pain and ...

Becker’s reported on four spine surgeons who moved to new practices or added to their titles in May. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. 1. Brett Simpson, MD, joined Tennova Neurosurgery – ...

Currently he’s a neurosurgeon at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic where he pioneered advancements in neurosurgical care, specializing in minimally invasive and robotic approaches to complex spinal ...

“Let’s finish the spine,” he said. “Let’s connect Everett and Tacoma. Ultimately, we want to finish the whole package, but I think over the next coming months I’ll argue, ‘Let’s do what’s most ...

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are characterized by severe optic neuritis and/or longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis, and some brain lesions are also unique to NMOSD. Serum ...

What is an acute spinal cord injury? Your spine is made of many bones called vertebrae. Your spinal cord runs downward through a canal in the center of these bones. The spinal cord is a bundle of ...

Perineural cysts known popularly by the eponym Tarlov cysts appear on dorsal nerve roots commonly in the sacral spine.1 These are a radiological diagnosis with MRI being the gold standard imaging.

gmail.com Background Anterior cranial fossa dural arteriovenous fistulas (ACF-dAVFs ... Patients included in the study were diagnosed with an arteriovenous fistula between 1990–2017. ACF-dAVFs were ...

While known complications include infection and hemorrhage, the formation of iatrogenic dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs) following ventriculostomy is under-reported. Methods We conducted a ...

The vertebral column, or backbone, is made up of 33 vertebrae that are separated by spongy disks. The spine is divided into 4 areas: Cervical spine. The first 7 vertebrae, located in the neck Thoracic ...