How to Handle Neck Pain
Neck pain is, literally, a pain in the neck! NYC Spine Surgeon Dr. Fischer at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City sees patients often complaining of neck discomfort. Sometimes it’s just a matter of obtaining a list of instructions about ways to manage neck...
Common Causes of Sciatica
If you’ve been told that you have sciatica, it is not a disease itself but a symptom of an underlying condition. Sciatica describes leg pain, often accompanied by numbness, weakness or tingling, that starts in the lower back and runs down the buttocks and sciatic...
Osteoporosis and Spinal Fractures
A condition called osteoporosis, which causes bones to thin, can lead to spinal fractures. The kind of fracture usually resulting from osteoporosis is a compression fracture, defined as a vertebral bone that decreases at least 15 to 20 percent in height because of the...