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Spinal surgery : Articles and features

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What is causing my back pain? Around 75% of us will suffer from back pain at some stage in our lives. But what causes it, and what is the best course of action to cope with the pain, and speed up recovery? The back is a complex...
What’s new in spinal surgery? Recent evidence suggests that physiotherapy and other exercise treatments are as good as surgical treatments in the majority of patients with chronic back pain, where there are no referred nerve root...
Back surgery - an overview Your spine runs down the length of your back from just underneath your skull down to your coccyx. There are twenty-four small bone blocks called vertebrae each with a spongy, tough cartilage in...
A stab in the back – spinal injections explained Spinal injections may be used in many cases of chronic back pain, both to find out what is causing the pain and also to treat the pain. These two separate uses of spinal injections are referred to as...
Advances in spinal surgery Lumbar spinal surgery is used to treat three main conditions; leg pain, back pain or deformity. Clearly it can be used to treat a combination of these. It is nearly always considered as the last...