The efficacy of fusion surgery in addition to decompression surgery in patients who have lumbar spinal stenosis ... in the SSSS trial (see Table S1 in the Supplementary Appendix).

L5-S1 is the exact spot where the lumbar ... Those who do may experience: Spinal fusion surgery can be effective for treating symptoms related to spondylolisthesis. However, it requires a ...

Richard Guyer performed anterior lumbar interbody fusion surgery on Woods, fusing together his L5 and S1 vertebrae, most likely with titanium or high-grade medical plastic, injected with synthetic ...

Woods underwent surgery to alleviate chronic pain in his back and leg. It's a procedure called anterior lumbar interbody fusion ... He said that the L5/S1 disc is commonly where athletes have ...

(April 14 issue) 1 found that in patients with lumbar stenosis, even in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis, decompression surgery plus fusion surgery does not result in better clinical ...

Four patients with screw loosening had an osseous L5-S1 fusion, Mazur told Spine Surgery Today. L5-S1 nonunion was seen in 1 patient who had bilateral S2AI screw loosening in the sacrum.

Carson Daly is on the mend after undergoing an Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) procedure on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the TODAY co-host, 49, who has suffered decades of back pain after ...

On a nondescript street in Plato, Texas, across the road from a nail bar, sits the Texas Back Institute, the surgery where Woods ... disc between the golfer's L5/S1 and replaced it with bone ...