Tag: stenosis

Premia Spine appoints three new board advisors ahead of TOPS system...

Premia Spine has announced the appointment of three new advisors—Stephen Hochschuler, Peter Wehrly and Nicholas Pachuda—to its board of directors. Bringing decades of clinical,...

Patients experience improvement in pain during sexual activity at one year...

A large proportion of patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) experienced an improvement in pain during sexual activity at one year, according to the results of a...

Surgeons develop a new screening measurement for cervical stenosis in NFL...

Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons have proposed the development of a screening measurement to determine the likelihood of prospective National Football League (NFL) players suffering a...
minimally invasive surgery

Minimally invasive decompression linked to lower reoperation, less slip progression and...

A study from Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City, USA) has found that, in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis associated with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis,...
frailty

Most elderly health insurance patients in Japan undergo non-surgical treatment for...

A large Japanese study has found that a significant number of spinal stenosis patients using health insurance claims are elderly people (>80 years), with...