Spine

Kristine Timpert's quirky little book "If Babies Did Crunches" tries to sugarcoat an important message for adults: Beware of crunches. The not-just for-kids book stresses that if you really want to banish tummy flab or back pain, clean up your diet and...

Erin Michael ran the relay race in the Baltimore Running Festival last year and saw a few disabled racers — but thought there could be more. The 29-year-old therapist at Kennedy Krieger Institute encouraged and then helped train nine patients who...

Jim Calhoun should be on the sidelines of a basketball court, coaching the University of Connecticut men's team. Instead, he's been on medical leave for a painful arthritic condition. Calhoun's pain is caused by spinal stenosis, a medical condition that...

Knee and hip replacements have been common for decades, offering patients who suffered from degeneration a full range of pain-free movement. But spines and backs have been more problematic. Spinal fusions, the gold standard, have meant a limited range...

CHARLEVOIX — Health officials reported Tuesday that two more Michigan residents have died, including an 81-year-old Charlevoix County woman, as a result of the national meningitis outbreak. The Michigan Department of Community Health said the...

Back problems in people have practically become an epidemic in the United States. Most everyone knows somebody, either a friend, family member, co-worker or neighbor who has suffered some kind of back injury or chronic nagging back pain. Unfortunately,...

Federal officials recommended Wednesday that Alaska health care providers contact more than 840 of their patients in connection with materials from a Masschusetts pharmacy implicated in a deadly multi-state meningitis outbreak. According to a statement...

The number of documented U.S. cases of fungal meningitis has risen yet again, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 205 infections Sunday, including 15 deaths. The latest tally is over a dozen more than the agency reported Friday....

It's not something schools test for any longer. And straightening out the problem can be tricky. A simple screening you can do at home may help. Meghan Falconer, scoliosis patient: "I love swimming. I've been doing it since I was four." In the water she...

The epidural steroid injection that has been linked to a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis in nine states including Michigan, was not used at Charlevoix Area Hospital or McLaren Northern Michigan hospital.  The Centers for Disease Control and...

Orioles left fielder Nolan Reimold can describe in one word what the last few months have been like for him, watching his teammates win while he recovers from neck surgery: Bittersweet. “It’s hard to be away, especially when the team is...

PHOENIX, AZ (KTLA) -- A woman who sustained an internal decapitation – and survived – is crediting firefighter for saving her life. Rachel Bailey sustained the rare, usually deadly injury where her spine was torn from her skull during a car crash in...