News tagged with spinal deformity


New genetically engineered mice aid understanding of incurable neuromuscular disease

A team of scientists from the University of Missouri created a genetically modified mouse that mimics key features of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited neuromuscular disease affecting approximately 150,000 people ...

Medical research created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Classification system would help spinal deformity care

(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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Minimally invasive spine surgery using real-time 3-D CT imaging allows patients to recover more quickly

(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 ...

Surgery created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vertebroplasty reportedly provides better pain relief and function

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. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First-in-man study shows that new magnetically controlled growing rods can treat scoliosis in children

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 re ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Risk of blood loss in childhood back surgery varies with cause of spine deformity

(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 ...

Surgery created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sexual function in older adults with thoracolumbar-pelvic instrumentation

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, ...

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