Dr. Carrie Jose, in her latest Health and Wellness column, explains why back surgery is rarely the answer, and what the first ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- According to the National Center for Health Statistics, more than 1.2 million spinal surgeries are performed nationally each year. But sometimes the pain ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs, the ...

Golf legend Tiger Woods announced on Saturday that he underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery in New York, marking his seventh back operation in a career increasingly defined by physical setbacks.

You may be familiar with that feeling — you stand too quickly or turn too suddenly and feel that slight “tug” in your back. But while a muscle pull may put you out of action for a few days, back pain ...

Tiger Woods' Achilles surgery in early 2025 took the golf legend off the course for all four of the year's majors, along with all other tournaments since the mid-March injury. Now, another health ...