Tiger Woods turned 50 in December. He's four months removed from disk replacement surgery in his lower back — the same back that has endured six other operations, including spinal fusion in 2017.

Pain and Lack of Mobility Necessitated Surgery This latest operation marks Woods’ seventh back surgery since 2014 — and his second in just over a year. The former World No. 1 underwent a major spinal ...

Tiger Woods' return to the PGA Tour may have to wait even longer. Woods announced Saturday that he had undergone lumbar disc replacement surgery in his lower back. The surgery, which took place Friday ...

Spine surgery is undergoing a major shift as more procedures move from hospitals into ASCs, driven by advances in minimally invasive techniques, technology and care delivery models. What was once ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Backus Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Spine Surgery, according to ...

Nationally, just 1-3 percent of spine surgeries are performed in an outpatient center, but Robert S. Bray Jr., MD, believes that rate will climb in the next decade as surgeons, payors and patients ...