Stryker reported goodwill and other impairments of $818 million related to the spine business in the fourth quarter.

Intuitive Surgical will face competition this year from Medtronic and smaller companies like CMR Surgical and Moon Surgical ...

Building on this experience, recent innovation has led to the development of prone transpsoas lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF ... point of 6 weeks after surgery, the patient was satisfied ...

There are different surgical techniques used to treat spinal stenosis. One such example is decompression laminectomy, which entails removing the buildup of bone in the spinal canal. A spinal fusion ...

However, surgery at the lumbar spine might have an inadvertent beneficial effect on other mechanical pain generators. Innovative methods have to be developed to overcome these problems.

"Yeah, not one tennis player has ever had this surgery and come back and tried to play again." "It's all really an experimental kind of -- the surgeon, like, yeah, if you ever go back and play at ...