Arthritis, narrow spinal canal, injury to spine, spinal tumor and certain, post-surgery of spine and bone diseases are the most common causes of lumbar stenosis. Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, affirms arthritis is the most common cause of lumbar spinal stenosis. The second is congenital spinal stenosis,…...

Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says to diagnose spinal stenosis the use a MRI to confirm it. He also explains the typical spinal stenosis patients will say they have no pain when sitting or laying down, but cannot walk, because of the pain in the legs. There are…...

A graphic shows different segments of the spine and neck. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist at Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, says most of the time patients complain about having trapezius pain or over the neck pain. The specialist explains what the most common source of pain are using a graphic. Neck pain and…...

Nerves leave the brain; they go through the spine out into the extremities. Then, when bones and discs in the cervical spine are changed, deformed or injured, this results in pain in the shoulder, in the arm, upper extremity, even jaw, describes Dr. Georgiy Brosuvanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida. The specialist also…...

Discs diminution size and height can result in significant pain and neurological dysfunction. Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains with a 3D imaging how the spine with the condition looks like and how it develops into spondylolisthesis. We do have actually our 3d image wall with degenerative so dr.…...

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…...