The spine surgery debate patients are starting to win (opens in new tab)

For decades, spine surgery has largely operated on a straightforward premise: identify the problem and fix it. If an MRI showed spinal stenosis, instability, deformity and degeneration, the goal was often to address as much of the pathology as possible. The assumption was simple. The more completely a problem was corrected, the better the outcome. […] The post appeared first on .