With a prototype, Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, explains the anatomy of the lumbar back. He shows how a normal healthy disc looks like (the blue one) compared to the degenerated discs. He explains degeneration happens with aging...

Dr. Brian Schiro, Interventional Radiologist with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, says when a compression fracture occurs the bone squishes down on itself, because the bone is not able to support the weight of the body. Dr. Adam Geronemus, Associate Director of the Fibroid Center at South Miami Hospital, explains any inflammation of the…...

Fusion surgery is indicated for patients who have deformities and instability. It’s a common operation for back pain, too. Dr. Georgiy Brosuvanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says the recovery for this surgery is good. He expects his patients to walk immediately, because there is no muscle injury and patients have pain…...

The pain is usually a sharp type of pain with movement and when patients get in certain positions the pain gets a little less, because they find a situation of comfort, explains Dr. Ronald Tolchin, Medical Director of the Baptist Health Center for Spine Care. He also says it depends on if somebody has…...

A very common problem is disc herniation can occur both in the neck and in the lower back, affirms Dr. Georgiy Brosuvanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida. If the nerve gets irritated or compressed inside the spine, it causes pain in the direction of where that nerve goes, he adds. The specialist…...

Loss of feeling in affected leg, weakness in affected leg, and loss of bowel or bladder function are some of the complications of sciatica. Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, says numbness and tingling are not the main concern of doctors, but it is weakness. "If you're…...

With a digital imaging, Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains the different types of disc conditions: normal disc, degenerative disc, bulging disc, herniated disc, thinning disc and disc degeneration with osteophyte formation. The doctor describes degenerative disc is part of a normal aging cascade where the outer wall of…...

Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains cervical vertebra (neck area) can have stenosis and its results would be upper extremity symptoms, the thoracic vertebra rarely gets stenosis and when it does, the symptoms are unusual, like trouble going to the bathroom. He also says the coccygeal vertebra is rarely…...