Articles from the Cleveland Clinic

 
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation is one of the most respected of all medical institutions in the world. NEWS is linking to a series of spine related articles prepared by The Cleveland Clinic. This educational information in no way replaces the medical advice of your personal physician.  The intention is to help you to better understand your condition and the various treatment options.

NEWS believes in prevention and strives to utilize that modality entirely; but once there is a problem that goes beyond prevention into disease, allopathically designed care may be the answer when integrative modalities are too late. 

Cleveland Clinic on SpineUniverse
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: The Benefits
Minimally invasive techniques are changing the face of spine surgery. Learn how here.
The foundation for back care and neck care stems from good posture. Anatomy: Spinal Architecture
Facet Joints and Low Back Pain
Overview of the Spine
Most cases of scoliosis will respond to spinal bracing.

Conditions/Disorders Affecting the Spine
Back Pain: When is Surgery Appropriate?
Back Pain: Myth or Fact?
Chiari Malformation and Fibromyalgia
Low Back Pain and The Zygapophysial Joint
Osteoporosis
Pain: Acute, Cancer, Non-Malignant - Chronic
Scoliosis: Questions/Answers
Spinal Fractures
Spinal Tumors
What You Need to Know About Acute Low and Mechanical Back Pain: Symptoms and Diagnosis
What You Need to Know About Scoliosis
Medical Miracles: Osteoporosis Can be Prevented

Patients share their experience with back pain.

Non-Surgical Treatment - Recovery - Prevention
Can Calcium and Vitamin D Supplementation Adequately Treat Most Patients with Osteoporosis?
Physical Therapy and its Role in Improving Your Back's Health
Coping with Back Pain: What Works?
Management of Chiari Malformation and Fibromyalgia
Exercise for a Healthy Back: Strengthen and Stretch
How to Cope When You Have Low Back Pain: Sitting, Driving, Standing, Stooping, Squatting, Kneeling
Maintain a Healthy Spine Using Good Body Mechanics
Maintaining a Healthy Spine - Posture
Physical Therapy Goals - Basic Exercises and your Back's Health
Posture for a Healthy Back: What is Good Posture
What You Need to Know About Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Medications: How NSAIDs Work
Back on Track - Video
Back Care When Pregnant - Maintaining a Healthy Spine

Surgery is required in only one person in 1000 with back pain. Surgical Intervention and New Technology
Osteoprogenitor Cells from Bone Marrow to Augment Spinal Fusions
Spine Specialists On-Call: Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures -- Restoring Spinal Stability and Quality of Life
Endoscopic Spine Surgery and Metastatic Thoracic Neoplasms
Minimally Invasive Bone Grafts: Requirements, Methods, and Use
How Do Bone Grafts Work?
Kyphoplasty: A New Treatment for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures
Medical Management of Osteoporosis and Vertebral Compression Fracture
Kyphoplasty: Part 2 - Outcomes
Minimally Invasive Bone Grafting
Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spinal Surgery
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: The Benefits
IDET: Wire Goes In, Pain Goes Out

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