Chapter 190 Psychosocial Aspects and Work-Related Issues Regarding Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease Andrew M. Bauer, Daniel K. Resnick There are few diseases that are so pervasive, yet so difficult to…
Chapter 188 Medical Management of Neck and Low Back Pain Daniel J. Mazanec, Russell C. DeMicco Back pain is common and costly. It was the most frequent type of pain…
Chapter 183 Medical Management of the Patient with Acute Spinal Cord Injury S. Scott Lollis, Perry A. Ball Epidemiology Spinal cord injury (SCI) has an incidence of approximately 40 cases…
Chapter 91 Spinal Deformity and Correction The Fundamentals Michael P. Steinmetz, Edward C. Benzel, Lawrence G. Lenke Spinal deformity is a three-dimensional alteration of spinal alignment in both the coronal…
Chapter 46 Cervical Laminoplasty Noboru Hosono, Kazuo Yonenobu General Principles and History Laminectomy was first introduced to release the spinal cord compressed at multiple levels, although it fell into relative…
Chapter 167 Total Disc Arthroplasty Associated Complications Robert Talac Surgical management of chronic low back pain remains challenging. Although lumbar fusion remains the gold standard, novel motion-sparing technologies are now…
Chapter 158 Adjacent-Level Degeneration and Disease of the Cervical and Lumbar Spine Kalil G. Abdullah, Thomas E. Mroz Spondylosis is a natural and evolving process that occurs with aging, and…
Chapter 157 Motion-Sparing, Nonimplant Surgery Cervical Spine and Lumbar Spine Ron Riesenburger, Paul Klimo, Edward C. Benzel Motion-Sparing, Nonimplant Surgery: Cervical Spine The last 20 years has seen an explosive…
Chapter 156 To Not Operate Ajit A. Krishnaney The last 2 decades have seen the development of a number of “motion-sparing” implants to be used as an adjunct in spinal…
Chapter 19 Osteointegration (Osseointegration) Daisuke Togawa, Thomas W. Bauer, Edward C. Benzel, Recent advances in spine surgery have led to expanded use of synthetic biomaterials. The interface between host bone…
