Blog: Spinal Fusion

Regenerative medicine, including injections of a patient’s own stem cells or blood platelets, could someday replace the scalpel as a major alternative for treating degenerative disc disease, a…

Back pain is a symptom, not a specific disease. It afflicts almost everyone at some point in their lives and is second only to the common cold as the cause of lost days of work and visits to a doctor…

Dr. Kadimcherla with Atlantic Spine Center explains what spine fusion surgery is and who may benefit from it. The idea of spinal fusion surgery sounds intimidating to many chronic back pain sufferers…

What is spinal fusion or back fusion? A spinal fusion (also known as back fusion) is a surgical procedure that permanently joins together (fuse) two or more vertebrae (bones in the spine). Screws…