Spine health news and articles.

Perhaps you had surgery and it relieved your symptoms for a while but now they’re back. Or perhaps the surgery did not alleviate your symptoms at all.

Common causes of back pain include poor posture, an injury or overdoing it when exercising. Back pain is very common and often resolves given time, rest and over-the-counter painkillers. Sometimes, though, it’s a sign of something more significant.

Back pain can range from a slight twinge to a relentless, debilitating condition. About 1 in 5 of us experience it in any given year while 50-80% of us can expect to have at least one bout of back pain over the course of our lifetime. What’s going on?

I recently came across this photo when looking through some old memories. It was taken shortly after disembarking at King Island airport in 2015.

I recently came across this photo when looking through some old memories. It was taken shortly after disembarking at King Island airport in 2015.

OLIF is a technique using the anterior to psoas approach to place an interbody cage and bone graft in the lumbar spine. The choice to place interbody cage and graft has to be made by the surgeon after considering multiple factors in the case concerned.