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Introduction to Spine, Back, and Neck Surgery
We all suffer from little discomforts—cricks in the neck after sleeping badly, lower back pain after too much heavy lifting. Are these aches and...

Finding a Spine, Back and Neck Surgeon
For many years, when spine, back and neck surgery were still fledgling fields of medicine, such operations were automatically viewed with a wary...

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...

Understanding the Risks of Surgery
Many modern surgical procedures are both routine and safe but, it is important to remember that there is a certain amount of risk in every surgical...

Calculating the Risks and Benefits of Surgery
Before every surgical procedure, surgeons will determine a risk/benefit ratio either informally or as part of a patient workup. If the ratio is too...

Recovering from Surgery – What to Expect
Surgery recovery is the sequence of steps that occurs from the point at which you awake from anesthesia to the point at which you are fully healed...

Otolaryngology: Treating the Head and Neck
Medicine is full of long, difficult words but otolaryngology may be one of the hardest; however when you consider that a doctor of otolaryngology...

Surgery Demographics – Security and Confidentiality
Surgery demographics are the statistics compiled about the age, gender, race and other characteristics of those undergoing surgery. Essentially surgery...

Surgery Recovery Period
The period after your surgery, called the recovery period, is a very important part of your overall surgical experience. The ease with which you...

Liposculpture: How it Differs From Liposuction
There is quite a bit of confusion when it comes to the similarities and differences between liosculpture and liposuction. Liposuction by its broadest...

Back Pain Treatment - Hemilaminectomy
The spinal column is made of a number on individual vertebral bones stacked on one another. These vertebrae have a hollow section around which the...