The minimally invasive lumbar decompression (mild) procedure provides pain relief and improved physical function for at least a year in patients suffering from lumbar spinal stenosis, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video from the Open Operating Theatre, Klaus John Schnake, MD, discusses how to perform an open, ...

To the Editor: Försth et al. (April 14 issue) 1 found that in patients with lumbar stenosis, even in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis, decompression surgery plus fusion surgery does not ...

While Medicare doesn’t usually cover nonsurgical spinal decompression due to a lack of sufficient evidence, it may cover a specific surgical procedure called percutaneous image-guided lumbar ...

WINCHESTER – Winchester Hospital performed its first Mildly Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD) procedure on a 75-year-old ...

A common cause for missed days at work or a trip to the emergency room is the intense back and leg pain that comes from a pinched nerve in the lower back. How does this happen? What are the treatment ...

Lumbar radiculopathy is inflammation of a nerve root in the lower back that causes symptoms in the back and down the leg. Radiculopathy is pain and other neurological symptoms caused by the pinching ...

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedures are coded 22630 for a lumbar initial interspace arthrodesis, posterior interbody technique, which ...

Spinal decompression therapy helps relieve back pain by reducing spinal pressure and addressing disk issues, pinched nerves, sciatica, and spinal stenosis. It can be nonsurgical or surgical. In most ...