Healthcare News
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: What You Need to Know
Scoliosis is an abnormal curvature of the spine in the front-to-back plane or view of the body. It affects millions of people worldwide, posing unique challenges that require attention and support. In people with scoliosis, the spine can curve to the left, right, or both.
Retrolisthesis and Spine Surgery
Retrolisthesis is a backward movement of a spinal vertebra relative to the vertebra beneath it. Historically, retrolisthesis has been seen as having no clinical significance.
Your Osteoporosis is Treatable
Fortunately, over the past two decades there has been great progress with numerous new medications developed that have dramatically improved the ability of health care professionals to successfully treat osteoporosis, resulting in a decreased chance of suffering an osteoporotic bone fracture.
98,000 patient study links diabetes to spinal stenosis
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 38.4 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, 97.6 million people 18 or older have prediabetes and 27.2 million people 65 and older have prediabetes.
Managing Osteoporotic Compression Fractures
Osteoporotic vertebral body compression fractures (VCFs), or vertebral insufficiency fractures, occur when the density of the bone is insufficient to maintain its structural integrity in the setting of trauma or even minor events.