Grade I degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis can be treated either with laminectomy and fusion or laminectomy alone, according to researchers, but they found in a recent study laminectomy with fusion ...

Patients with degenerative grade I spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis may experience improved quality of life after undergoing a laminectomy with lumbar spinal fusion vs. laminectomy alone, ...

Patients whose lumbar spinal stenosis was treated with decompression surgery plus fusion ended up no less disabled than those who had decompression alone, but they did lose more blood, stay ...

Dec. 18, 2003 -- Skip laminectomy may be a better procedure than conventional laminoplasty, according to the results of a preliminary trial published in the Dec. 15 issue of Spine. "Postoperative ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (FEBRUARY 2, 2021). Researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) conducted a randomized controlled trial in 47 patients with lumbar spinal stenosis to compare treatment outcomes and ...

About 20% of people who have spinal surgery may feel pain, known as post-laminectomy syndrome (PLS), afterward. In addition to pain, PLS may cause tingling, weakness, numbness, or stiffness in the ...

Surgery for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is very rare. Your doctor may recommend it if your condition is severe and if other treatments haven’t helped enough. Laminectomy. This is the most common ...

Rheumatoid arthritis often involves your wrists, knees, and feet. But it can also affect your spine. Most of the time, this kind of back pain responds well to arthritis treatments such as biologics.

Since clinical documentation details both a laminectomy and a laminotomy being performed on different levels of the spine with medical necessity clearly defined, both CPT code 63030 (L1 HNP) and 63047 ...

When can I golf after back surgery? This is a very common question physical therapists are asked after a patient has started their post-operative rehab for back surgery. As with most things in ...

This is a very common question physical therapists are asked after a patient has started their post-operative rehab for back surgery. As with most things in medicine, the answer is: it depends.