Disks are the round cushions that sit between the bones of your spine (vertebrae). They act like shock absorbers, and let you bend and move without your bones rubbing together. When one of the disks ...

Q: I have a herniated disk that’s been bothering me for more than a year. I’ve tried exercise, medication and complementary therapies. Nothing has helped. What are my surgical options? A: Let’s start ...

Spine surgery is a broad field encompassing various procedures that help address different spinal conditions. There are various types of spine surgery, including artificial disk replacement and spinal ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: I have a herniated disk that’s been bothering me for more than a year. I’ve tried exercise, medication and complementary therapies. None have helped. What are my surgical options? DEAR ...

July 14, 2009 — Conventional microdiskectomy may be better than tubular diskectomy for sciatica, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported in the July 8 issue of the Journal ...

A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional ...

Ali Bydon, MD, associate professor, neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the study findings he and colleagues published in the journal of neurosurgery, Spine.

– Percutaneous lumbar discectomy procedures are coded 62287, which is for a decompression done by any method/technique. That code is billed once (for single or multiple levels), regardless of the ...

Codes 63075 and 22554 are still valid for use in cases where only those individual procedures are performed and they are not combined. Code 22554 is for an arthrodesis, anterior interbody technique, ...