http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Surgeons investigated sexual function in 62 patients, 50 years and older, who had received extensive spinal–pelvic instrumentation for spinal deformity at the University of Virginia Health Center. Based on their results, the surgeons found that it is very possible for older people to achieve satisfactory sexual function despite having extensive spinal–pelvic instrumentation. Details of this study are disclosed in "Sexual function in older adults following thoracolumbar to pelvic instrumentation for spinal deformity. Clinical article," by Dr. D. Kojo Hamilton and colleagues, published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-sexual-function-older-adults-thoracolumbar-pelvic.html Surgery Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:01 EST news288355093 (HealthDay)—The management of adult spinal deformity (ASD) and selection of optimal fusion levels is incompletely defined, according to a review article published in the April issue of The Spine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-classification-spinal-deformity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 14 May 2013 15:25:48 EST news287763931 (Medical Xpress)—With demand for unresolved back pain relief growing as the U.S. population ages, Rush University Medical Center is doing more minimally invasive spine surgery procedures that allow patients to return to normal, day-to-day activities faster than if they undergo conventional surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-minimally-invasive-spine-surgery-real-time.html Surgery Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:30:01 EST news277460037 An analysis of published data in the medical literature has found that vertebroplasty can provide more pain relief and better function for patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures than nonoperative treatments. Vertebroplasty, a medical procedure for reducing pain caused by this type of fracture, involves the injection of an acrylic cement into the body of the fractured vertebrae for stabilization. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-vertebroplasty-reportedly-pain-relief-function.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:48:40 EST news261053313 A first-in-man study published Online First by The Lancet shows that new magnetically-controlled growing rods can treat scoliosis in children by being extended using a non-invasive technique as their spine grows, without the repeated invasive surgery used with existing rod technology. The study is by Professor Kenneth Cheung and Dr Dino Samartzis, from the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-first-in-man-magnetically-rods-scoliosis-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:30:03 EST news253980549 (Medical Xpress) -- The relative risk of blood loss during corrective spine surgery in children appears linked to the underlying condition causing the spinal deformity, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-blood-loss-childhood-surgery-varies.html Surgery Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:10:00 EST news253174166