SPINE abnormalitiesCRITICAL care medicineSURGERYIntroduction: Intensive care unit (ICU) admissions constitute a substantial financial challenge for health care systems and patients and are linked to various potentially life-altering complications. A wide range of patient-related, surgical, and medical ...
Please, before seeking chiropractic care; talk your Southwest Spine and Pain Center physician. If chronic pain is keeping you from doing the things you want, it's time to schedule an appointment at Southwest Spine and Pain Center. With multiple locations across the state of Utah, the pain man...
Also, due to technological advancements, the incidence of spine surgeries is growing. Considering these overall increases in both obesity and the performance of spinal surgeries, it can be inferred that more spinal surgery candidates will be obese. Due to this, certain factors must be taken into ...
Barriers to Sexual Expression After Spinal Cord Injury Social attitudes and physical barriers associated with decreased mobility as well as a dependency on others for care after a spinal cord injury often hinders sexual expression. A social attitude that deems people with physical disabilities as depend...
Once she returned home, Morris talked with her primary care provider and was given a referral to see a vein specialist. Morris thought that she would get answers and relief at the vein specialist. However, when the provider saw her, he said that it was not an issue with her ve...
Large data analysis from hospitals and primary care providers demonstrated that one in five patients who underwent lumbar spine surgery in the United Kingdom developed PPP, which increased resource consumption and expenses. Unlike studies that used unrepresentative patient samples, this...
4 Unfortunately, the higher rate of spinal surgery is also associated with lower patient satisfaction.5 There is increasing awareness that management strategies are needed to improve the results of spine surgery while controlling costs. Lack of management of the quality of healthcare during treatment ...
Although patients with diabetes reportedly have more back pain and worse patient-reported outcomes than those without diabetes after lumbar spine surgery, the impact of diabetes on postoperative recovery in pain or numbness in other regions is not well characterized. In this study, the authors aimed...
Nexus’ hope is that with their quick and easy construct, providers and healthcare systems can achieve favorable outcomes with this new system of spine implant fixation, saying they expect to reduce 12-15 minutes per surgery on single-level fusions. ...
patients in our department did not undergo a standardized rehabilitation program after surgery, and sports were not incorporated in their plan-of-care treatment. To date, screening programs are nonexistent, but explicit evaluation of daily life difficulties should be included during follow-up appointmen...