Amazingly, surgeons can take bone from one part of the body and place it in another and it will grow there. Bone is one of the only tissues in our body that can regenerate in this way. Spine surgeons often make use of this natural phenomenon to perform a spinal fusion. That is, they use the natural growing powers of bone to stabilize a segment of the spine...

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...

Snowboarder  and Olympic hopeful Danny Davis was recently released from a Utah hospital after surgery to fix a broken vertebra.  According to the New York Times, he would have been one of four members of the US halfpipe team.  But that dream ended after he crashed an all-terrain vehicle last...

Dr. Lustgarten founded and directs the Central New Jersey practice based in West Long Branch and at Monmouth Medical Center, Riverview Medical Center, and Jersey Shore University Medical Center. His interests include brain and pituitary tumors, image-guided surgery, spinal and disc surgery including...