It will be awhile before we see Justin Thomas back in action on the PGA Tour. The 32-year-old 16-time Tour winner announced on social media Friday that he had undergone a microdiscectomy - a surgical ...

Q: A workers’ compensation carrier (U.S. Department of Labor) has refused payment on our standard microdiscectomy code, saying that, per Medicare’s standards, this is not considered a procedure that ...

Christian Yelich was in good spirits after undergoing a microdiscectomy, a procedure designed to alleviate pain and nerve issues in the patient's back. He did not, however, want to dig too deeply into ...

For adults with symptomatic lumbar disc herniation, unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) microdiscectomy is associated with longer operating times and with lower pain medication consumption in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed lumbar microdiscectomy with a bone-anchored annular closure device for treatment of ...

Objective To assess the costs and cost-effectiveness of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) compared with open microdiscectomy among patients with sciatica. Methods This economic ...