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• Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

  Kyphosis

  A spine affected by kyphosis has a forward curvature of the back bones (vertebrae) in the upper back area, giving an abnormally rounded or humpback" appearance."
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• Adolescent Scoliosis

  Kyphosis

  A spine affected by kyphosis has a forward curvature of the back bones (vertebrae) in the upper back area, giving an abnormally rounded or humpback" appearance."
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• Adult Deformity Surgery
• Adult Degenerative Scoliosis

  Scoliosis

  A normal spine, when viewed from behind, appears straight. However, a spine affected by scoliosis shows a side-to-side curvature, with the spine looking like an "S" or "C." The back bones (vertebrae) may also be rotated. This makes it look like the person is leaning to one side. 
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• Adult Idiopathic Scoliosis

  Scoliosis

  A normal spine, when viewed from behind, appears straight. However, a spine affected by scoliosis shows a side-to-side curvature, with the spine looking like an "S" or "C." The back bones (vertebrae) may also be rotated. This makes it look like the person is leaning to one side. 
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• Adult Tethered Cord
• Ankylosing Spondylitis

  Ankylosing Spondylitis

  Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis that affects the spine. Ankylosing means stiff or rigid, spondyl means spine, and itis refers to inflammation. The disease causes inflammation of the spine and large joints, resulting in stiffness and pain.
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• Artificial Disc
• Basilar Invagination
• Butterfly Vertebra
• Cerebral Spinal Fluid Leak
• Cervical Deformity

  Cervical Spondylosis

  Cervical spondylosis is a type of degenerative disease that affects your neck. Normally, soft disks between the bones in your spine (called vertebrae) provide cushioning. With cervical spondylosis, these disks become squeezed (compressed). 
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• Cervical Spine

  Cervical Spondylosis

  Cervical spondylosis is a type of degenerative disease that affects your neck. Normally, soft disks between the bones in your spine (called vertebrae) provide cushioning. With cervical spondylosis, these disks become squeezed (compressed). 
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• Chiari Malformation
• Congenital Deformities

  Birth Defects in Children

  A birth defect is a health problem or physical change that is present when a baby is born. Birth defects are also called congenital anomalies or congenital abnormalities. The word congenital means present at birth.
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• Congenital Spinal Abnormality/Anomaly
• Craniocervical Junction Decompression & Fusion
• Decompression
• Disc Replacement
• Discectomies
• Disk Degeneration
• Disk Herniation

  Lumbar Disk Disease (Herniated Disk)

  Lumbar disk disease occurs when the spongy disks between the vertebrae bulge out or rupture. Lumbar disk disease is caused by a change in the structure of the normal disk. Most of the time, disk disease happens as a result of aging and the normal break down that occurs within the disk. 
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• Dislocations
• Endoscopic Spine Surgery

  Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

  Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) is surgery on the bones of your spine (backbone). It uses smaller incisions than standard surgery and causes less pain and faster recovery.
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• Facet Joint Syndrome
• Failed Back Syndrome
• Flat-Back Syndrome
• Foraminotomy

  Foraminotomy

  A foraminotomy is a surgical procedure. It enlarges the area around one of the compressed nerves in your spinal column. Here's what you need to know about the procedure.
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• Fracture of Spine
• Fractures
• General Pediatrics
• Herniation
• Instability-Spine
• Kyphoplasty

  Kyphoplasty

  Kyphoplasty is a procedure used to treat fractures or breaks in the vertebrae. It involves injecting a cement-like material into the vertebra to make it more stable.
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• Kyphoscoliosis
• Kyphosis

  Kyphosis

  A spine affected by kyphosis has a forward curvature of the back bones (vertebrae) in the upper back area, giving an abnormally rounded or humpback" appearance."
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• Kyphotic Deformity
• Laminectomy

  Laminectomy

  Laminectomy is a type of surgery in which a surgeon removes part or all of the vertebral bone (lamina). This helps relieve compression of the spinal cord or the nerve roots that may be caused by injury, herniated disk, spinal stenosis (narrowing of the canal), or tumors.
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• Laminoplasty
• Lordosis

  Lordosis in Children

  Lordosis is a deformity of the backbone (spine). It’s when the bones of the spine (vertebrae) in the lower back curve inward more than normal. A child with lordosis has a swayback appearance.
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• Lumbar Instability

  Lumbar Strain

  A lumbar strain is an injury to the lower back. This results in damaged tendons and muscles that can spasm and feel sore. The lumbar vertebra make up the section of the spine in your lower back.
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• Lumbar Tumor Surgery
• Microdiscectomy
• Minimally Invasive Surgery

  Methods of Surgery

  An "open" surgery means cutting the skin and tissues so that the surgeon has a full view of the structures or organs involved. Minimally invasive surgery is a relatively new approach that allows the patient to recuperate faster with less pain. Not all conditions are suitable for this type of surgery.
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• Myelopathy
• Neck Pain

  Neck Pain

  Your neck is at risk for injury because of its location and range-of-motion. Neck pain can be caused by injury, age, or inflammatory disorders. Neck pain can range from mild discomfort to disabling, chronic pain.
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• Nerve Tumor

  Neurological Disorders

  Here is a list of nervous system disorders that require clinical care by a physician or other healthcare professional.
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• Neuromuscular Scoliosis
• Oncology of Spine
• Ossification Ligament
• Pars Defect of Lumbar Spine
• Pars Defect Repair
• Pediatric Spine
• Peripheral Nerve
• Platybasia
• Posterior Longitudinal Ossification Ligament
• Radiculitis
• Radiculopathy

  Pinched Nerve

  Radiculopathy, commonly called pinched nerve, is most likely to occur in your lower back (lumbar radiculopathy), but it can also affect your neck (cervical radiculopathy) or other parts of your spinal cord.  
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• Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term (chronic) disease that causes inflammation of the joints. The inflammation can be so severe that it affects how the joints and other parts of the body look and function.
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• Root Compression

  Pinched Nerve

  Radiculopathy, commonly called pinched nerve, is most likely to occur in your lower back (lumbar radiculopathy), but it can also affect your neck (cervical radiculopathy) or other parts of your spinal cord.  
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• Scheuermann´s Kyphosis
• Schwannoma

  Acoustic Neuroma

  Acoustic neuroma is a rare noncancer tumor. It affects hearing and balance when the tumor presses on the nerves in the inner ear.
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• Sciatica

  Sciatica

  Sciatica, also called lumbar radiculopathy, is a pain that originates along your sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The pain extends from the back of your pelvis down the back of your thigh.
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• Scoliosis / Kyphosis
• Severe Kyphotic Deformities
• Severe Lordotic Deformities
• Spina Bifida

  Spina Bifida in Children

  Spina bifida is a condition present at birth (birth defect) when there are problems with the spine, spinal cord, and the surrounding nerves. It can cause part of the spinal cord and areas around it to form outside of the body. This problem can happen anywhere along the spine.
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• Spinal Compression Fracture & Fusion

  Compression Fracture

  A compression fracture is a type of break in the bones in your back that stack up to form your spine. A compression fracture can cause back pain, limited movement, a decrease in height, and a stopped over posture. It often develops as a result of osteoporosis.
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• Spinal Cord Injury
• Spinal Cord Stimulators

  Treating Pain with Spinal Cord Stimulators

  Spinal cord stimulation is one way to manage various types of pain. A spinal cord stimulator is an implanted device that sends low levels of electricity directly into the spinal cord.
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• Spinal Cord Tumors

  Spinal Cord Tumor Overview

  Spinal cord tumors are fairly uncommon. It's much more common to develop a brain tumor than a tumor on the spinal cord. A spinal cord tumor may form inside the spinal cord itself or around the bones that make up the spine.
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• Spinal Deformity
• Spinal Fractures and Disorders
• Spinal Infections

  Overview of Nervous System Disorders

  Disorders of the nervous system include stroke, infections, such as meningitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and functional disorders, such as headache and epilepsy.
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• Spinal Stenosis

  What Is Spinal Stenosis?

  Spinal stenosis is a condition in which the spinal canal narrows and pinches the nerves. This results in back and leg pain. Surgical treatment for spinal stenosis is considered after nonsurgical remedies have not improved symptoms, and when the benefits of surgery are greater than the potential risks.
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• Spinal Tumor

  Spinal Cord Tumor Overview

  Spinal cord tumors are fairly uncommon. It's much more common to develop a brain tumor than a tumor on the spinal cord. A spinal cord tumor may form inside the spinal cord itself or around the bones that make up the spine.
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• Spinal Vascular Disease
• Spine

  Anatomy of the Spine

  Your backbone, also called the vertebral column, is made up of 33 vertebrae separated by spongy disks.
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• Spine / Back Surgery
• Spine Minimally Invasive

  Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

  Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) is surgery on the bones of your spine (backbone). It uses smaller incisions than standard surgery and causes less pain and faster recovery.
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• Spine Surgery Instrumentation
• Spine Trauma (Complex & Fresh)

  Acute Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

  Car accidents, falls, and other injuries are a common cause of acute spinal cord injury. Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) is a traumatic injury that bruises, partially or completely tears the spinal cord. SCI is a common cause of permanent disability and death in children and adults.
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• Spondylolisthesis

  Overuse Injuries

  Detailed information on overuse injuries in children, including jumper's knee, patellar tendonitis, little leaguers' elbow, little leaguers' shoulder, osteochondritis dissecans, Sever's disease, shin splints, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, spondylolisthesis, and spondylolysis
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• Spondylolisthesis/Spondylolysis

  Overuse Injuries

  Detailed information on overuse injuries in children, including jumper's knee, patellar tendonitis, little leaguers' elbow, little leaguers' shoulder, osteochondritis dissecans, Sever's disease, shin splints, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, spondylolisthesis, and spondylolysis
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• Sports Spine Injury Disorder
• Stenosis
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery

  Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

  Gamma Knife uses very precise beams of gamma rays to treat an area of disease (lesion) or growth (tumor). It’s most often used in the brain.
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• Synovial Cyst

  Baker Cyst

  A Baker cyst (popliteal cyst) is a fluid-filled sac that forms behind the knee.
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• Syringomyelia
• Syrinx
• Tethered Cord
• Thoracic Spine and Disks

  Anatomy of the Spine

  Your backbone, also called the vertebral column, is made up of 33 vertebrae separated by spongy disks.
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• Unstable Spine
• Vertebroplasty

  Vertebroplasty

  Vertebroplasty is a procedure used to treat fractures or breaks in the vertebrae. In this procedure, a thick cement mixture is injected into a fractured vertebra to stabilize the spine.
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