Lumbar spinal fusion has been a mainstay in spine surgery. Here six things to know about the procedure in 2025: 1. Lumbar spinal fusions are among the most common lumbar spine procedures done from ...

Cervical fusion remains one of the most-performed cervical spine procedures done even as other techniques have gained prominence. Five notes: 1. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusions have been the ...

Then he came across a new procedure using a flexible implant that the Food and Drug Administration approved in June 2023 and deemed superior to the common spinal fusion surgery. He had the surgery ...

However, there are some cases where it just doesn’t work as well as we’d predict, and we estimate as many as 25% of patients may end up undergoing a posterior spinal fusion within five years.

A novel synthetic bone graft showed noninferiority to autograft in posterolateral spinal fusion. The synthetic graft also diminished the effects of smoking on surgical outcomes. SAN DIEGO — A ...