What Causes Spinal Ligaments To Thicken?
Category: Spine | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 16, 2025
Spinal ligaments play a key role in stabilizing your vertebrae and helping you maintain an ideal spinal alignment. However, if these ligaments begin to thicken, they can take up key space within the vertebral column. There is already limited space in this area, and ligament thickening can end up compressing key nerves and structures within […]
Could Balance Problems Be Caused By A Spinal Tumor?
Category: Spine | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 15, 2025
Are you finding that your balance just isn’t what it used to be? Balance issues aren’t all that uncommon, especially in older adults whose bodies have been put under decades of stress, but if your lack of stability seems a little surprising, perhaps it’s best to have a conversation with your primary care physician. Balance […]
4 Times When Traditional Back Surgery May Be Preferred To Minimally Invasive Surgery
Category: Spine Surgery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 14, 2025
If everything was equal, spine surgeons would recommend that a minimally invasive surgical technique be used to carry out a spinal procedure. As we’ve discussed on our blog numerous times, minimally invasive spine surgery has become the preferred procedure for a number of different spinal issues. Not only is a minimally invasive procedure less taxing […]
How Can Doctors Treat Extreme Back Pain?
Category: Back Pain | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 9, 2025
One minute you’re moving some boxes in the garage, the next you’re in extreme pain because you herniated a disc in your spine. Others may wake up one day to find that their mild sciatica pain has suddenly progressed to the point where normal movement is incredibly difficult and increasingly painful. When back pain is […]
What Is Life Like After Spine Surgery?
Category: Spine Surgery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 8, 2025
When determining if spine surgery is the right path forward, many people try to envision what their life would look like after the procedure and recovery is complete. However, since they’ve likely never gone through anything like this, it can be tough to picture what life will be like when the operation and recovery is […]
Puberty, Pregnancy, Menopause – How Hormonal Changes Can Lead To Back Pain
Category: Back Pain | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 7, 2025
If you’re going through any of the three stages listed in the title of this blog – puberty, pregnancy or menopause – you have enough on your plate without also dealing with back pain. Unfortunately, there’s a decent change that your lifestage is accompanied by back pain due in large part to the hormonal fluctuations […]
Daily Walking Can Shrink Your Risk Of Chronic Low Back Pain
Category: Back Pain | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 2, 2025
Walking is a simple and low-cost form of exercise that has a number of health benefits, but it may also be incredibly helpful for the long-term health of your spine. New research suggests that putting one foot in front of the other on a regular basis may greatly decrease your risk of developing chronic low […]
Is Back Pain A Normal Part Of Aging?
Category: Back Pain | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 1, 2025
Back pain tends to be much more common in older adults, and this makes sense for a number of reasons. Older adults have put decades of stress on their bodies and have experienced some degree of degeneration that comes with the aging process, but does that mean that back pain should be expected when you’re […]
