Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

More than a million spine surgeries are performed in the U.S. yearly. Now there’s a more advanced ultra-minimally invasive ...

Spine surgery is in a “renaissance” with new ideas regularly emerging, Tan Chen, MD, said. As more data comes out, he said he ...

COLORADO (KRDO) – Thirteen-year-old Nora Casper knows firsthand how scary spine surgery can be. Diagnosed with congenital scoliosis as a baby, she’s undergone multiple spinal procedures, including her ...

Exploring a unique spinal surgery procedure and how it dramatically improved one patient’s mobility and quality of life.

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...

A young girl surprised her classmates after returning to school following spinal surgery. Paulina Liendo, eight, had been ...

UCSF’s neurological surgery and orthopaedic surgery departments have earned the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in ...