Dr. Jeffrey Gum, a surgeon at Norton Leatherman Spine, worked alongside other surgeons and engineers to develop the Medtronic ...

A Louisville doctor was deeply involved in designing a new spine surgery robot that was recognized among TIME Magazine's Best ...

Patients who underwent robotic-assisted minimally invasive lumbar fusion surgery required significantly less opioid ...

Lower back surgery represents a life-changing decision that demands careful consideration. While many view surgery as a solution to chronic pain, understanding these seven critical facts helps create ...

Lumbar disc herniation is one of the most frequent degenerative conditions of the spine, and surgical decompression by ...

When Jonathan Baskin, MD, began his neurosurgical career nearly 25 years ago, spinal fusion was used more selectively for degenerative conditions. Today, increasingly sophisticated technology has made ...

Patients receiving deep neuromuscular blockade during lumbar spine surgery have a lower incidence of chronic postsurgical ...

Researchers who had been using Fitbit data to help predict surgical outcomes have a new method to more accurately gauge how patients may recover from spine surgery. Using machine-learning techniques, ...

In spine and orthopedic surgery, an abnormal MRI is not a surgical indication. But patients arrive convinced it is, and sorting through that disconnect is the most consequential part of the job, ...

An emerging type of minimally invasive spine surgery reduces the use of pain medication in patients' recovery compared to those who undergo other less minimally invasive spine surgery, which use ...

The presence of significant, unwarranted variation in treatment suggests that clinical decision making also depends on where patients live instead of what they need and prefer. Historically, high ...