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2. New back surgery gaining popularity to alleviate pain - AOL

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   For more than 50 years, a spinal fusion has been to the go-to surgery for herniated discs. But a new procedure may offer an alternative. New back surgery gaining popularity to alleviate pain [Video]

3. Spinal fusion - Wikipedia

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   Spinal fusion, also called spondylodesis or spondylosyndesis, is a surgery performed by orthopaedic surgeons or neurosurgeons that joins two or more vertebrae. [1] This procedure can be performed at any level in the spine (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, or sacral) and prevents any movement between the fused vertebrae.

4. Joanna Gaines back home after undergoing surgery for back ...

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   Joanna Gaines is recovering from back surgery. The Fixer Upper: Welcome Home star, 44, revealed that she underwent a microdisectomy, a surgical procedure to treat a herniated disc in the spine ...

5. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction - Wikipedia

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   Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a decline in cognitive function (especially in memory and executive functions) that may last from 1–12 months after surgery, or longer. [1] In some cases, this disorder may persist for several years after major surgery. [2] POCD is distinct from emergence delirium. Its causes are under ...

6. Bertolotti's syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Bertolotti's syndrome is characterized by sacralization of the lowest lumbar vertebral body and lumbarization of the uppermost sacral segment. It involves a total or partial unilateral or bilateral fusion of the transverse process of the lowest lumbar vertebra to the sacrum, leading to the formation of a transitional 5th lumbar vertebra.

7. Health and Wellness: Six reasons why your back surgery failed

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8. Minimally invasive thoracic spinal fusion - Wikipedia

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   After being discharged from the hospital the patient will be required to wear a back brace for the first three months after surgery. After nine months to a year a patient will be able to resume all normal activity. Unlike other spinal fusions, with a minimally invasive thoracic spinal fusion only about 10 percent of mobility is lost.

9. Tiger Woods undergoes fusion surgery to treat post-traumatic ...

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   A fusion surgery is when a surgeon combines two bones when one of them can't be repaired or replaced. That means that there was a bone in Woods' foot in such bad condition that it needed to be ...