Back pain and leg pain may be caused by lumbar disk herniation. It may be necessary to treat the condition by surgery, if it persists. Patients who have a short period of sick leave before the surgery ...

Just like people, dogs are susceptible to disk injuries due to heavy reliance on their spine for various movement and activities. Although moderate injuries can sometimes be cured by rehabilitation ...

If you have neck pain or stiffness, that sometimes travels down your shoulders or arms… You may be a candidate for cervical disk replacement surgery. Also known as C-D-R, the surgery helps to relieve ...

Wayne Wiggins hopes surgery on Thursday will finally cure the pain he has endured since his car was rear-ended more than six years ago. It will be the third cervical procedure for Wiggins. This time, ...

If you have neck pain, a good shoulder massage might help. For serious neck pain, people try physical therapy, pain medication, acupuncture or epidural steroid injections. Once the conservative ...

About 300,000 Americans have surgery each year for herniated disks. With total hospital, anesthesia and surgery costs running around $10,000 to $15,000 per operation, that works out to up to $4.5 ...

A herniated disk can cause lower back pain, numbness, tingling, and other symptoms. Certain factors make a herniated disk in the lower back more likely. Treatment may depend on the severity. Other ...

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Tiger Woods Has a Seventh Back Surgery to Have Disk Replaced Tiger Woods has gone through a seventh back surgery, this time to replace a disk in his lower back and had caused pain and mobility issues.

In perhaps one last effort to save his professional baseball career, Texas Rangers starting pitcher Matt Harrison underwent disk fusion surgery on Tuesday after his latest back issue and will hope to ...