Blog: Recovery

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Would an ALIF (fusion) be Helpful in Treating My Chronic Lower Back Pain?

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While most cases of lower back pain will resolve with non-surgical treatments, some patients with chronic back and/or leg pain can benefit greatly from a surgery with a strange name: ALIF, or anterior…
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Tests to Diagnose Back Pain

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When It Hurts to Sit, Stand or Sleep: Tests to Diagnose Back Pain Dr. Kaixuan Liu shares some of the top ways doctors figure out the cause of an aching back. Back pain is usually fleeting, with most…
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Recovering from Spinal Fusion – What to Expect

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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…