NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Spine Surgeon First To Use AxiaLIF Spine Surgery In Manhattan

Each year, 40 to 60 percent of American adults suffer from chronic back pain. More than one million spine surgery procedures are performed annually, with medical costs to treat back pain approaching $24 billion per year. With age and injury, discs located between the vertebrae in the spine might eventually wear-down — a process termed degenerative disc disease. Due to the lack of padding, vertebrae bones slip and rub together. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on December 20th, 2007