Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

Insurance denied 18-year-old Nala White’s surgery for degenerative disc disease. After NBC News reached out, it was approved the next day. By the time she graduated high school, the back pain that ...

Spine surgeons have to balance surgical care and conservative treatment in their work, and some conditions have tended to be over-operated. Two surgeons discuss the barriers that make some overtreated ...

Endoscopic spine surgery is pushing past being a novelty in 2025. In the first half of 2025, hospitals including Martinsburg, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center, Cleveland-based ...

From assuming key leadership roles and launching specialty institutes to pioneering first-of-their-kind surgical techniques and advancing research, neurosurgery and orthopedic leaders nationwide are ...

There can be many reasons for spinal disease. In most cases, it is related to our lifestyle. These problems can be avoided to a great extent by adopting the right habits and getting timely tests and ...

Regina Trollmann, MD, of the Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, and colleagues, did a retrospective ...