On Friday, Tiger Woods underwent surgery for his seventh time on his back, this time receiving a Lumbar disc replacement in his L4/5. The 15-time major champion was still recovering from Achilles ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When the Charité artificial disc received FDA approval for clinical use in 2004, most spine surgeons thought ...

This study expands the evidence validating the fixed-core design of the prodisc L device and includes 1,187 patients undergoing 1- or 2-level LTDR, with and without prior surgery, and followed from 7 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Zigler and colleagues performed a post-hoc analysis of 175 patients with single-level, symptomatic disc ...

CENTER VALLEY, PA--(Marketwired - November 03, 2016) - Prior to the 31st Annual North American Spine Society (NASS) meeting in Boston, MA last week, a group of leading spine surgeons came together at ...

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC today announced that UnitedHealthcare ® has issued a new, positive medical policy for Lumbar Total Disc Replacement (TDR) ...

The second largest commercial payer in Arizona has issued new evidence-based criteria supporting one-and two-level lumbar total disc replacement (TDR), expanding access to this treatment option for ...

MIAMI (Ivanhoe Newswire/WTVM) -- For the first time in ten years, people with chronic back pain now have a new option to get them back on their feet. The FDA recently approved the newest generation of ...

Degenerative disc disease affects up to 40% of all patients with low back pain. It can lead to spinal instability; that is, the inability of the spine to limit excessive or abnormal spinal ...