For patients with disease at multiple spinal levels, surgeons have traditionally faced a binary choice: fuse everything or disc replacement. Ramin Raiszadeh, MD, of San Diego Spine and Brain Institute ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cervical and lumbar disc replacement have shown promising results compared with spinal fusion for the treatment ...

Disc replacement, the Total Posterior Spine System (TOPS) and other motion-preserving options have given spine surgeons more ways to treat degenerative disease without fusing a segment. Four surgeons ...

A study recently published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery shows that two-year outcomes of artificial disc replacement for two-level disc disease is an effective alternative to fusion, ...

New York, NY - Experience is slowly building with the first artificial spinal disk, the SB Charit ¿ III (DePuy Spine/Johnson & Johnson, Raynham, MA), which was launched in the US late last year. Five ...

Spinal fusion has long been “the gold standard” in spine surgery, but motion-preserving techniques have become more attractive to physicians and patients in recent years. Spine surgeons discuss how ...