Category: Surgery

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – West Orange, NJ, May 20, 2022 – The International Association for the Study of Pain defines failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) as lumbar spinal pain that “persists despite surgical intervention” or develops after surgery.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — Outpatient surgery may be an option for people who are having their hips, knees or other joints replaced.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DETROIT – While not as common as knee or shoulder arthroscopy, hip arthroscopy has become a viable surgical option for patients to alleviate pain and restore their quality of life.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the world’s top-ranked health system specialized in orthopedic care, marked a major expansion and renovation of its Uniondale location with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOSTON – New research findings suggest that providers are poor predictors of patient satisfaction with anesthesia and perioperative comfort.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In a small operating room at El Buen Samaritano Hospital, a team of surgeons, nurses and surgical personnel work to fix a distal femur fracture. The break is four months old.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHICAGO – Machine learning (ML) models developed by surgeons at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have shown a high level of accuracy in predicting which types of patients….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — Jim Nemecek was feeling fine last autumn. He had healed well from a 2020 spine surgery at Mayo Clinic called a diskectomy, and the active 69-year-old from the Atlanta area was doing what he loves best: playing tennis.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — The foods we eat on a regular basis influence the makeup of the bacteria — both good and bad — in our mouths.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Many patients who undergo surgery to correct a collapsing foot share the question: Will I be able to get back to doing the things I love?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New York, NY, March 16, 2022 – Each year in the United States, more than 100,000 women have mastectomies. Advances in surgical techniques today offer women the hope of a soft, warm breast that may look similar and feel much like her original breast….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CLEVELAND – University Hospitals is the first health system in Greater Cleveland to add the Mazor X Stealth™ Edition Robotic Guidance Platform to its regional spinal surgery program.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Going into surgery is nerve-racking for anyone, but it can be especially frightening for children.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – “I was 38 minutes with no brain activity,” says Joe Bitter, recalling a 2015 incident. He collapsed one night without warning, and his life thereafter would be much different.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Bariatric surgery is one of the most effective interventions in the fight against ongoing obesity. In fact, a recent PubMed study documents 14 years of significantly lower mortality rates for patients who opted to undergo weight-loss surgery than those who did not.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – West Orange, NJ, February 2022 – The idea of undergoing spine surgery for a lingering back or neck problem can certainly be intimidating.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A Michigan Medicine study found that preadolescent children with severe neuromuscular scoliosis who are treated with growth-friendly surgery prior to spinal fusion….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – More than 185,000 amputations occur in the U.S. annually, according to the Amputee Coalition. Most are lower limb amputations resulting from diabetes, trauma and cancer.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – West Orange, NJ, November 30, 2021 – Having surgery to tackle back or neck pain is a huge decision. But what comes after spine surgery? Postoperative physical therapy, or PT, is usually the next logical step to reclaim your strength and improve the odds of a full recovery

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW ORLEANS, La. – Cataract surgery is one of the most successful medical procedures performed in the United States, with nearly 4 million Americans choosing to have their cataracts removed every year.