Pain center moves into Norwood Hospital Boston Globe The center helps patients with conditions like back and neck pain, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis , and tumors, chronic abdominal pain, complex regional pain syndrome, intractable spasticity, muscle and joint pain, disorders of the nervous ... Read more »
Briefly… CITY/REGION | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-05-14 – Philadelphia Daily News
Briefly... CITY/REGION | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-05-14 Philadelphia Daily News Gov. Corbett is scheduled to have back surgery Monday in Pittsburgh, his office said Read more »
Dr. Gott: Pain can be difficult to treat – GoErie.com
Dr. Gott: Pain can be difficult to treat GoErie.com I suffer from spinal stenosis , which has left me in a lot of pain since getting out of the hospital Read more »
Aiea football player inspires others after life-changing injury – KHON2
Aiea football player inspires others after life-changing injury KHON2 After he was rushed to the hospital he was diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis . "Canal around the spinal chord is getting too close to squeezing the ... Read more »
Nurse-led spine clinic yields high patient satisfaction – Clinical Advisor
MedIndia Nurse-led spine clinic yields high patient satisfaction Clinical Advisor She assessed a total of 177 pre-selected patients with disc-herniation, spinal stenosis and degenerative disease at a Toronto Western Hospital clinic in ... Nurse-Practitioner-Led Spinal Clinic May Be Effective, Feasible Medscape all 4 news articles?? Read more »
Back pain sufferers get quicker diagnosis and treatment when examined by Nurse Practitioner
Results of a Toronto Western Hospital study show that patients suffering back pain get quicker diagnosis and treatment when a Nurse Practitioner conducts the first examination. Read more »
Cancer, loss and calamity couldn’t keep comic Big Daddy Graham down – Philadelphia Inquirer
Cancer, loss and calamity couldn't keep comic Big Daddy Graham down Philadelphia Inquirer ... Read more »
Houston Surgeon One of First to Offer Back Procedure – MyFox Houston
MyFox Houston Houston Surgeon One of First to Offer Back Procedure MyFox Houston ... who was back at Foundation Surgical Hospital, for his one year check-up, after undergoing a procedure to fix spinal stenosis , or narrowing of the spine. .. Read more »
Prescription drug overdoses on the rise in U.S. (Reuters)
Reuters - More and more Americans are landing in the hospital due to poisoning by powerful prescription painkillers, sedatives and tranquilizers, according to a report released today. City-living middle-aged women seem particularly vulnerable. Read more »
FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE COLUMN One health care facility doesn’t fit all (The Daily Times)
As I write this, I am currently at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. I transferred here the first Wednesday in January after spending just over eight months and 14 surgeries to correct disability-related problems arising from my spinal cord injury (SCI) at the Washington Hospital Center "just across the street" from the NRH Read more »
