Dr. Georgiy Brosuvanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says not only the kids with scoliosis lead normal lives, a lot of what we know about scoliosis are either urban legends or it is just wrong. "It's okay to wear backpacks on one side, it's okay to slouch; these kids can play normal sports,…...

Do you have neck pain? Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, talks about it and explains the symptoms, such as pain that radiates down the arm when you extend, or that radiates to shoulder blade, among others...

Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, says to get paralyzed you have to have a significant amount of compression of the nerve. "Normally where you develop all the paralysis will be where the spinal cord ends, around the L1-L2 level. So anything that happens below that you're…...

How dangerous is having a long-term inflammation? Dr. Jonathan Gottlieb, Orthopedic Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, talks about how inflammation can cause nerve damage in the spine, and how stress increases the inflammation around the nerves. What's that correlation there what's happening in the body because inflammation we need it it…...

Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains how he performs a herniated disc surgery. He also describes the advantages of minimally invasive surgery. However, he warns all the surgeries have risks, even this one. With minimally invasive surgery, the doctor expects the pain will go. When a patient hears the…...

Having a poor posture can lead to be prone to injure the spine; have neck, shoulder and back pain; imbalance and increased risk of falling, problems with digestion and difficulty for breathing. Diana Solares, Physical Therapist with West Kendall Baptist Hospital, explains poor posture can make the spine more fragile, because it is not…...

Sciatica is when the pressure on the sciatic nerve causes radiating pain that runs down one or both legs. Amir Mahajer, Interventional Spine Specialist at Baptist Health Neuroscience Center, says it occurs when you have pain in the back: "It's from the lumbar region, so you have three sections of the spine and then…...

Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, says the risks of spinal cord stimulation will be infection, and bleeding. "For bleeding, we ask the patient to stop several medications prior to the procedure, and for infection everything is sterile and we give antibiotics during the procedure and during…...