ACDF has been performed for decades, and it is also one of the operations patients most often arrive underinformed about. This ACDF surgery guide walks through what the procedure involves, why it is recommended, what the hardware does, and what recovery realistically looks like, including the parts patients are rarely warned about. Every detail here…
Most neck pain settles within a few weeks. When it does not, the useful question is whether the problem is muscular or structural, because the two behave differently and respond to different care.Patients with chronic neck pain may be referred to a spine surgeon for several reasons: symptoms that have outlasted good conservative treatment, arm…
Spondylolisthesis treatment is guided by three questions: what caused the vertebra to slip, how far it has moved, and whether the slip is pressing on nerves. Many people with a low-grade slip do well with core strengthening, activity adjustments, and time. Others, particularly those with instability or nerve compression, benefit from surgical stabilization. The condition…
Lumbar spinal stenosis treatment depends on three things: what is narrowing the canal, how much that narrowing limits standing and walking, and what has already been tried. Most people begin with nonsurgical care such as physical therapy, activity adjustments, and in some cases injections. When leg symptoms keep shortening the distance a person can walk,…
When a damaged spinal disc needs to come out, the reconstruction decision usually comes down to two well-established options: replace the disc with an artificial one, or fuse the two adjacent vertebrae into a single, motionless segment. Both approaches have decades of clinical use behind them, and both can produce excellent outcomes in the right…
Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spaces within the spine that puts pressure on the spinal cord and surrounding nerves, and it is overwhelmingly a condition of later life. Most people never experience symptoms before their fifties, yet by the seventh and eighth decades, it becomes one of the leading reasons older adults see…
Degenerative disc disease, or DDD, describes the gradual breakdown of the cushioning discs between the vertebrae, and it can develop in the neck or the lower back. When conservative treatment no longer controls the pain caused by severe degenerative disc disease, the conversation usually comes down to two surgical paths: spinal fusion surgery, the longer-established…
This lumbar herniated disc guide covers everything patients need to understand about the condition, starting with what actually happens inside the disc when it herniates. The soft, gel-like center of a spinal disc, called the nucleus pulposus, pushes through a tear in the disc’s tougher outer wall, known as the annulus fibrosus, most often at…
Are you dealing with hip pain that doesn’t respond to conservative treatments like rest or ice? If so, you could benefit from a procedure like sacroiliac joint fusion. Signs you may need this treatment include prolonged pain, tingling, or numbness in the lower back, hips, or legs, along with a limited range of motion that…
At The Spine Center, we know golf is your passion. But that nagging back pain or sciatic twinge isn’t just frustrating—it’s a signal. If you’re constantly adjusting your swing to accommodate your back, the problem may be a mechanical spine issue that practice can’t fix.Many golfers fear spine surgery means a long recovery and the…
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