Cervical disc replacement is often recommended by top spinal surgeons to manage nerve pain caused by a damaged disk in the neck, otherwise known as the cervical spine. This procedure involves [...]
Considered a ‘cutting edge procedure’ for spinal stenosis, coflex® has been in the news for its recent (2012) FDA-approval and for being the first and only motion-preserving minimally-invasive [...]
The X-STOP is a minimally invasive surgical procedure designed to alleviate painful symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis, which can cause numbness/tingling and fatigue in the legs as well as an [...]
Your spinal surgeon wants to relieve you of your back pain, using methods that fulfill all of the goals of correcting your spinal condition while at the same time minimizing collateral damage to [...]
In our previous blog we addressed bone spurs, or osteophytes, bony growths that form on injured, damaged or diseased bones, which can impinge on adjacent bone and tissue. But what causes bone [...]
You’ve just been told the cause of your back pain is a bone spur. If you’re like many patients who receive this diagnosis, one of your first questions may be, “What exactly is a bone spur?” [...]
Lower back pain is one of the most common – and debilitating – medical conditions, affecting the majority of the population at some point in their lives. Up through the ages of 45 or 50, [...]
We’re all familiar with the term sciatica, and we know it has something to do with back pain. But here at New Jersey Spine Specialists, we find even some patients with the condition aren’t sure [...]
