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  • Back Pain Prevention
    You parents didn’t hassle you about poor posture just to keep you looking sharp! Proper posture can help you avoid serious back injury by keeping your spine in proper alignment and not pulling it in unnatural directions.
  • Cervical Spine Surgery
    Cervical spine surgery is performed to help alleviate painful symptoms caused by the compression of spinal nerves and/or the spinal cord.
  • Exercises After Back Surgery
    It is important to continue to strengthen your core muscle after back surgery so that you can avoid a recurrence of the back condition (or even other back conditions).
  • Minimally Invasive Laser Spine Surgery
    As our medical technology has evolved patients have been filled with a new sense of hope as minimally invasive laser spine surgery has become more mainstream.
  • Laser Surgery-Is it Right for You
    In the last ten years laser surgery has made major breakthroughs in the medical field. Patients are now given the choice of exploring alternative methods to their treatment that often will not require general anesthesia or lengthy hospital stays.
  • Lower Back Stretches to Help Relieve Back Pain
    The whole mentality of “pain is good” or “no pain no gain” is completely wrong here. If you are feeling pain then you are likely causing further damage to the already injured section of your back.
  • Lower Back Exercises
    It is important to know that the majority of your body’s stability is provided by your spine. The spine gets its stability from your core muscles.
  • Thermal Ablation
    When trying to compare a facet thermal ablation to any other medical procedure, one has to consider a root canal that the dentist would perform.
  • Percutaneous Endoscopic Discectomy
    One of the most common reasons for back pack occurs when a herniated disc or bulging disc apply pressure to a nerve root or directly on the spinal cord.
  • Laminotomy - The Detailed Information You Need to Know
    When a laminotomy is performed it is done to gain access to the spinal canal. A laminotomy uses an endoscopic approach to this for the surgeon to free any compressed or “tethered” nerves in the area.
  • Endoscopic Surgical Procedure – Foraminotomy
    Your foramen is the area in your spinal canal that your nerves exit from. When these nerves become compressed or “strangled” by conditions such as bone spurs, disc herniations or ruptures, scar tissue and sometimes excessive ligament development...







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