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Why not take your workout to the pool? The buoyancy of the water decreases the amount of pressure on your bones and joints by supporting some of your body weight. Aquatic exercise is a great way to...

The bottom line is that there are plenty of ways to get hurt playing hockey. And while back and neck injuries are not nearly as common in the game as head, leg and shoulder trauma, both recreational...

If you’re a basketball fan, you probably know that Cleveland Cavaliers forward and NBA mega-star LeBron James had to miss his team’s final two preseason games following a “precautionary” anti...

As a high-impact sport where big hits are…well, a BIG HIT, it’s understandable that player injuries are a fact of life on the gridiron. And although spinal trauma may run a distant fourth to knee, leg...

The operation, a lumbar fusion in which Dr. Patel and Dr. Marc Morard at L ‘Hôpital du Valais in Sion, Switzerland placed four pedicle screws in a minimally invasive fashion into the vertebrae of a...

Dr. Chetan Patel is headed to Chicago this week for the 30th annual meeting of the North American Spine Society (NASS), where he will both present and moderate a special symposium titled “Do Robotics...

Chicago Bulls forward Mike Dunleavy now has something in common with legendary golfer Tiger Woods. Both pro athletes have undergone lumbar microdiscectomy procedures over the past few weeks, and both...

Tiger Woods’s announcement late last week that he recently underwent a second microdiscectomy procedure came as a shock to many fans who’d noticed some improvement in his game during recent weeks...