Dr. Ronald Tolchin, Medical Director of the Baptist Health Center for Spine Care, says spinal stenosis is very common and happens when arthritis occurs and the discs start to shrink and they start to compress the nerves. He explains patients will experience nerve pain or numbness and tingling into the extremities due to the pinching…...

Dr. Theresa Pazionis, Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon at Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, explains conservative care consists on physical therapy, oftentimes injection therapy, lifestyle modifications and other ergonomic changes that patients are going to make in their lives in order to ease the pain or any other health problem. Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine…...

The new technology for disc replacement includes a removal of the disc in the most sparing way possible and then replacing it with a metal prosthesis that allows normal motion, says Dr. Georgiy Brosuvanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida. Actually, he considers few patients need surgery; few back problems are dangerous and nerve…...

Dr. Georgiy Brosuvanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains spinal degenerative disc disease starts when the discs collapse. "Discs maintain the space between bones, if the disc becomes sufficiently small, the nerve becomes compromised and then patients start to develop pain that goes from their back down to their extremities." He also says…...

Over-the-counter medications are the first steps to treat back pain, explains Dr. Ronald Tolchin, Medical Director of the Baptist Health Center for Spine Care. However, he recommends being very careful about them because they can cause side effects. Other conservative therapies for treating arthritis are: injections, diet, exercise, weight loss and other natural therapies. The…...

Some of the symptoms that can occur along with a spine fracture are back or neck pain, numbness or tingling, muscle spasms and weakness. Dr. Justin Sporrer, Neurosurgeon at Baptist Health Neuroscience Center, says back or neck pain has multitude of causes but if it came on after a trauma, then you have to wonder…...

Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, recommends to patients with lumbar stenosis to bend their knees and to not bend over to lift up weight. He also explains they have to avoid extension based exercise, like those you do with rolling machines, because they will compress the spine even more. [vc_toggle…...

Dr. Ronald Tolchin, Medical Director of the Baptist Health Center for Spine Care, explains with a digital 3D model what lumbar stenosis is. He describes that when nerves are compressed into a spinal canal, that condition is called lumbar spinal stenosis. The specialist affirms when spinal stenosis advances to a moderate or severe degree, patients…...