More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, ...

Epidural glucocorticoid injection is an intervention commonly used for managing lumbosacral radicular pain. The goal of the injection is to administer glucocorticoids to the epidural space to ...

An American Academy of Neurology assessment finds little high-quality evidence, supporting only short-term pain relief of radicular lumbosacral pain. Back pain is one of the most common disabling ...

Or have you had a sudden numbness or pins-and-needles sensation in your legs or feet that you can’t explain?These are not ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

radicular pain or scoliosis. Vertebroplasty "overuse" was defined in patients who had fractures caused by osteoporosis, with some exclusions. 4. States with the highest overuse of spinal fusions ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

As an active researcher, Dr. McCormick's work focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of spine and joint pain, specifically radicular, discogenic, vertebrogenic, zygapophyseal joint, sacroiliac joint, ...