From endoscopic spine to cervical laminoplasty, spine surgeons discuss the procedures that they want to see gain prominence. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons ...

KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops man is suing Interior Health and a local surgeon, saying he was paralyzed by an infection he contracted after neck surgery two years ago. John Robert Young filed the suit in BC ...

A cervical laminectomy removes small bony structures (the spinous process and lamina) from one or more vertebrae of the neck region of the spine to alleviate pressure on the spinal cord, which causes ...

Posterior wiring has been the standard cervical stabilization technique since the late 1800s. Wires passed through or about the spinous processes, facets, or lamina provide provisional alignment ...

Common mechanism for a spinous/transverse process fracture. Poses little to no threat of spinal cord/nerve injury. Often referred to as pain tolerance issue, usual return to play: 3-5 weeks pic ...

Wheat — Orthopaedic Surgeon, Springfield Hospital. Hathaway — Junior Assistant Surgeon, Springfield Hospital. For records and addresses of authors see "This Week's Issue." page 256 ...

During the Schober test, a doctor draws a small horizontal line across the spinous process — the area where ligaments attach to the spine — at the fifth lumbar vertebra (L5). They also draw ...

In the conventional posterior approach to the lumbar spine for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), the paravertebral muscles are stripped from the spinous process. The authors developed a ...

A clay shoveler’s fracture is a break in the bony protrusion on a vertebra called the spinous process. It is often caused by excess force from twisting muscles in the neck, back, and shoulders.

Spinous and transverse processes look a little like fingers. On each vertebra, there are two transverse processes and one spinous process. The two transverse processes are located on either side of ...

The learning-based method proved to be more precise for spinous process localization while processing images at a faster rate, which is advantageous for real-time scoliosis scanning. To evaluate the ...