Sentences with phrase «for spinal surgery»

For example, Johnson & Johnson used HP's 3D printers to make a prototype of a medical device used for spinal surgeries.

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Woods will face major championship pressure for the first time since spinal - fusion surgery revived his career.

For Woods, who was apparently as glued to his TV on Sunday as the rest of us, Mickelson's 43rd PGA Tour win, at the advanced age of 47, was an inspiration to the 42 - year - old who is playing his fourth tour event after returning from last April's spinal fusion surgery.

Dr. Clement K. Jones is a board certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in spine surgery and treatment of spinal disorders for the Spine Care Institute of San Francisco, located within Saint Francis Memorial Hospital.

Even worse than the Profar news for the Rangers is that Prince Fielder will likely miss the remainder of the year after an upcoming cervical spinal fusion surgery.

But the spinal anesthesia used during the procedure presents a unique risk for pain after the surgery.

The Tethered Spinal Cord and Spina Bifida Surgery Program at Floating Hospital for Children offers surgical options to treat these conditions in our downtown Boston pediatric hospital.

«There are currently no therapies which successfully reverse the damage seen in the more than 12,000 individuals who suffer a spinal cord injury each year in the United States alone,» says Dr. Richard G. Fessler, professor of neurological surgery at Rush University Medical Center and principal investigator for the Phase 1 clinical trial involving AST - OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells).

Another widespread practice for more than 40 years is spinal fusion, a surgery for back pain that often involves implanting expensive devices known as pedicle screws.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Pressure ulcers affect more than 2.5 million Americans annually and patients who have spinal cord injuries that impair movement are more vulnerable to developing them, said senior investigator Yoram Vodovotz, Ph.D., professor of surgery and director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling at the Pitt School of Medicine.

More than 200,000 Americans undergo spinal surgery each year, supporting a multibillion - dollar market for bone regeneration products.

Designed for use in spinal fusion surgery of the lower back, Infuse consists of a titanium cage that houses a collagen sponge soaked in bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), a growth factor that signals bone - forming cells to produce new tissue.

Still, because surgery for spina bifida is straightforward — sealing an opening in the spinal column, which fails to close around the spinal cord as it should — surgeons began offering it prenatally more than 10 years ago.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

One possible area is medical implantation, such as stents for holding arteries open after surgery or spinal disc replacements that can last a lifetime.

It is the first study that clearly compared outcomes between surgery and an evidence - based, standardized physical therapy approach for lumbar spinal stenosis.

A new study appearing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that these surgeries are generally safe with mortality rates decreasing for total hip (THR) and total knee (TKR) replacement and spinal fusion surgeries, and complication rates decreasing for total knee replacement and spinal fusion in patients with few or no comorbidities (other conditions or diseases).

Acute pain after spinal fusion surgery, which includes herniated disc repair, treatment for narrowing of the spinal canal, etc., may be particularly difficult to manage.

The study included 69 children with CP who underwent spinal fusion surgery for scoliosis between 2008 and 2011, identified from an international database.

Some procedures are more urgent or vital, and should be performed first and should not be combined for safety reasons, such as procedures with an increased infection risk, spinal fusion and heart surgeries, she said.

He is working closely with a team of physicians at the UNM Cancer Center to conduct these trials: M. Omar Chohan, MD, a neurosurgeon who specializes in surgery for tumors of the brain and spinal cord; Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist who is an expert in the radiation therapy of brain tumors; and Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, a newly recruited medical oncologist to the UNM Cancer Center who is an expert in cancers of the lung, brain and spinal cord, and early phase clinical trials.

The institute's physicians are experts in services such as adult reconstructive surgery, hand, upper extremity and microvascular surgery, shoulder and elbow surgery, arthroscopic surgery, pediatric orthopedics, treatment for spinal conditions, sports medicine, complete management of simple and complex fractures, incomplete bone healing, bone deformities and bone infections, and bone and soft tissue tumors.

It is often difficult for surgeons to see whether the entire tumor has been removed during surgery to remove complex brain or spinal cord tumors.

Our expert neurologists and neurosurgeons are at the forefront of imaging for brain surgery, as well as radiation therapy for brain, skull and spinal cord tumors and treatments for a wide range of neurologic conditions.

Giving opioids to animals to quell pain after surgery prolongs pain for more than three weeks and primes specialized immune cells in the spinal cord to be more reactive to pain, according to a new study by the University...

We shipped 20 pillows to our expert, Jeffrey Goldstein, MD, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery and a spinal - surgery specialist at New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases.

The procedure would make spinal surgery «essentially obsolete» and would be «worthy of nomination for a Nobel Prize,» he wrote, «if» — and here's the catch — «the results are true.»

The same thing that makes methylene blue a credible treatment for disk problems also makes it dangerous, explains Victor Khabie, MD, the co-chief of orthopedic surgery at Northern Westchester Hospital, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. «Methylene blue is a very corrosive substance to the spinal cord and covering,» he says.

After emergency surgery for what was thought to be a spinal infection, former Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller has been preliminarily diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, People reported last night.

A 2015 study found that the sooner people got PT for lower back pain, the less likely they were to receive surgery, spinal injections, or opioids later on.

Because of the give of the ball, the movements that are used have less strain, particularly spinal and muscular strain, making them a favorite for those recovering from injury or surgery.

There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that used to be commonplace (such as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..

Regular vigorous exercise is good for our health in general — but not immediately after heart bypass or spinal surgery....

Where the two come together is that in order to reduce pain from the spinal injury and not wanting either surgery or cortisone steroid injections for the rest of my life, I turned to a book by Neal Barnard, M.D. and nutritional researcher, entitled, Foods That Fight Pain.

Slightly wounded on the mend from work related injury / spinal surgery... Absolutely no drugs or alcohol for the last 43 years, working hard to recover from accident / surgery to normalize my life again!

Then you have people like me that are just not good at hitting them out of the way... Add two neck surgeries (acdf & posterior placement of rods), endometrial ablation (& tubal ligation as a necessity for the ablation), a gallbladder removal, worsening spinal stenosis and degenerative disease, many bad situations related to life in general, etc, etc, etc... It has not been a good 10 years, no matter how you slice it.

The Neurotechnology and Spine segment manufactures neurosurgical and neurovascular devices, which are used for brain and spinal implant surgeries, bone graft procedures, and hemorrhagic stroke treatments.

This modality is a great option for animals recovering from surgery or injuries, spinal cord diseases, or arthritis.

Igi worked alongside his handler at O'Hare International Airport for five years as bomb sniffing dog until he needed surgery for a spinal condition.

A veterinarian performed surgery, for free, but the dog's spinal injuries were such that he lost the use of his back legs and wasn't expected to walk again.

Laser treatments are also being integrated into rehabilitation plans for many pets recovering from orthopedic and spinal surgery.

Surgical Management - The aim of surgery is to remove the disc herniation, eliminate spinal cord compression and allow room for the spinal cord to swell which is a normal part of the healing process.

Examples of services offered at SVS include ventilatory support for critical patients, endoscopy, brain and spinal neurosurgery, minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy / thoracoscopy), Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO), advanced soft tissue and oncological surgery, exotic animal surgery and more.

Then after Oscar became an «only child», Signe asked us to transport Timmy from Texas A&M, where he had just had surgery for spinal stenosis.

I've had no problems submitting claims for my two dogs — one with a lifelong illness that requires bi-monthly injections, and the other with a recent spinal injury that required major surgery.

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She was taken to her regular veterinarian, who diagnosed a spinal fracture on x-rays, and referred Smokey to Cornell for emergency surgery.

Berg and his partner, Richard Joseph (see page 36), are the only two licensed veterinary neurologists in New York City and Westchester, and they have all the necessary machinery for their speciality: MRI scanners as well as equipment for brain and spinal surgery, spinal taps, and physical therapy.

He has worked as a Small Animal Surgery Instructor at Auburn University, was the Director of Research for the Comparative Neuroscience Center in Denver, has been active in research projects in the field of spinal trauma, and is a past president of the Denver Area Veterinary Society.