Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When compared with standard pediatric spinal fusion, growing-rod surgery for early-onset scoliosis was shown to ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. For a long time, spinal fusion was the only surgery to treat ...

Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure in which two or more vertebrae are permanently joined into one solid bone with no space between them. Vertebrae are the small, interlocking bones of the spine. In ...

NEW YORK & LYON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The MEDICREA Group (Alternext Paris: FR0004178572 - ALMED), a company that specializes in the development of personalized implants produced for a patient’s ...

Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure doctors can use to treat many different problems in your back or neck. The surgery joins two or more of your vertebrae together, which can: stabilize and align ...

The Neo Pedicle Screw System (PSS; Neo Medical) is a sterile, single‑use pedicle screw system designed for use during spinal fusion surgery in adults. It comprises several differently sized rods, 14 ...

A student has revealed how she snapped the metal rods that were inserted to correct her curved spine when she sneezed. Rosie Paltridge, 19, had sections of her vertebrae fused together on June 4 2015 ...