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Dual Portal Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Honing a Game Changer

Dual Portal Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Honing a Game Changer

underlying bone. More recently, orthopedic surgeons have used tubular retractors and a microscope to perform less invasive operations, but they still require open dissection of the tissue, leading to soft tissue destruction, denervation, and longer periods of...

How The Pandemic Is Changing Our Bodies

How The Pandemic Is Changing Our Bodies

During the first three months of the COVID pandemic, Lexie Michel, 23, hunkered down in her California apartment with her college roommates and didn’t do much else. After graduating, she moved to Texas and continued the hermit life as a remote employee. Fast-forward a...

Set Up Your Bed to Avoid Back Pain From Sleeping

Set Up Your Bed to Avoid Back Pain From Sleeping

Here’s an all-too-familiar scene: you roll out of bed first thing in the morning, and there it is—that intense backache or neck pain. Thinking it will work itself out throughout the day and blaming it on stiffness, you go about your day, but you still experience pain....

Tips for Recovering From Surgery

Tips for Recovering From Surgery

HAVING SURGERY? EXPERTS offer before-and-after surgery tips to promote your full recovery: click here to read the full article

Virtual Visits Available

Virtual Visits Available

I hope everyone is safe and healthy. Elective surgeries are on pause, but I am still available to help my patients.  To help patients stay at home but still get the spine care that they need, I am now seeing patients through the NYU Langone Virtual Health platform. ...

Back Pain May Flare Up During Stressful Times — Here’s Why

Back Pain May Flare Up During Stressful Times — Here’s Why

It's not necessarily a coincidence that your back pain is flaring up during times of great emotional tension — stress actually has the potential to cause back pain, as well as make existing back pain even worse. click here to read the full article