If you’re considering neck surgery, you may be asking a question that rarely gets a straight answer: does my weight affect how well I’ll recover? It’s a fair question, and one we wanted to answer with real patient data...read more
Patients coming in for cervical disc replacement don’t all hurt in the same place. Some feel it mostly in the neck. Others feel it mostly radiating down the arm. We wanted to know whether that distinction — which symptom...read more
Dr. Kern Singh recently had the honor of delivering a special evening keynote, “The Surgeon Athlete: Keys to Longevity,” at the World Neurosciences Summit (WNS-V) in New Delhi, India—an international gathering of neurosurgeons and spine surgeons hosted by Medanta...read more
If you’ve researched minimally invasive options for a herniated disc, spinal stenosis, or other degenerative spine condition, you may have come across endoscopic spine surgery (ESS) — a technique that uses a camera and small instruments through an incision...read more
When patients research a spine surgeon, they usually look for experience: how many procedures has this surgeon performed, and for how long. That matters. But there’s a second question worth asking that most patients don’t think to ask: is this...read more
Patients researching spine surgery today are asking a sharper question than they used to: not just “which surgery is right for me,” but “which approach makes the most sense financially, too.” As endoscopic and minimally invasive techniques have matured,...read more
