Rheumatoid arthritis often involves your wrists, knees, and feet. But it can also affect your spine. Most of the time, this kind of back pain responds well to arthritis treatments such as biologics.

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...

Back decompression aims to relieve back pain by taking pressure off compressed spinal discs. There are surgical and nonsurgical methods of back decompression. Nonsurgical therapy includes spinal ...

Several types of back surgery can help reduce back pain. Common procedures include spinal fusion, discectomy, and disk replacement. Recovery times may depend on the extent of the procedure. Share on ...

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 ...

Early surgical intervention for asymptomatic cervical spinal cord compression only has modest quality of life improvements while having variable cost-effectiveness, according to a study in the June ...

Back pain and slipped discs are increasingly affecting working professionals and younger adults across India, emerging as one ...

Spine surgeon education needs to go beyond the technical skill and include greater emphasis on understanding data, conservative care and business structures. Four surgeons discuss what they would ...

When Massachusetts-based attorney and fitness and weight loss blogger Charlene S. Bazarian, 61, injured her back nearly three decades ago, she couldn't have known it would lead to a lifetime of ...