“She was sitting in my office and she showed me this video of herself doing karate,” says Dr. Michael Kaiser from the Spine Center. “I was impressed by how much she had already recovered. It had only been six months since her operation.” He’s talking about 60 year old Lisa Schwartz, a...

According to the Boston Globe early this month, football superstar Peyton Manning just had surgery in Chicago for a pinched nerve in his neck.  While the details of his condition were not released, surgeons at our Spine Center say they routinely see patients for this kind of problem and...

Just as you can't know a person just by their photo, surgeons can't make clinical decisions based solely on X-Ray or MRI images.  Whether the images look good or bad, they have to consider the whole person. This is especially true when it comes to a degenerative disorder involving the spinal cord...