Robert Langard

What Causes Scar Tissue

Scar tissue forms mostly in muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and joints. These dead fibrotic tissues can also be called an adhesion.Repetitive motion, injury and surgery can result in the formation of scar tissue. The bodies healing process occurs in... Read >

What Are the Symptoms of Scar Tissue

When dealing with the word heal in this article we will think of that word in relation to scar tissue is loaded up on the location of a traumatic injury. The scar tissue known as fibrosis usually decreases the natural movement of the injured area and giv... Read >

Why Scar Tissue Causes Back Pain

Effects of scar tissue on back pain and leg painWhen scar tissue forms near the nerve root, it's called epidural fibrosis. Epidural fibrosis is a common occurrence after back surgeries. This is so common that it often occurs in patients with both succes... Read >

The Process of Painful Scar Tissue Removal

Scar tissue forming near the nerve root is called epidural fibrosis. This epidural fibrosis is a common occurrence after back surgery has been preformed. The formation of scar tissue is part of a normal healing process the body goes through after spine ... Read >

How to Prevent Scar Tissue

Scar tissue after back surgery is a problem that researchers have been trying to find a way to prevent. This study that I read is the first know study to include humans. Low-dose radiation is being used as a treatment for scar tissue build up. After 24... Read >

Exercises for bulging discs

With most back injuries rest is usually all that is required for your back to start to feel better. Resting in a comfortable position on a firm mattress will help to take the pressure off of your spine and the muscles around it. On suggestion to relie... Read >

Bulging lumbar disc

Being fairly common in both young adults and older people, bulging disc can affect just about anyone. Most times they are not a cause for panic and are often discovered by accident while having another medical problem examined. Abnormalities, such as bu... Read >

Bulging disc treatments

A bulging disc is not a cause for panic as they are fairly common in both younger and older people. A bugling or protruding disc is usually see at high rates on MRIs in patients that suffer with back pain and are also found in patients that are not suffe... Read >

Bulging disc symptoms

There are two main types of low back pain, mechanical type pain and compressive type pain.The result of inflammation caused by irritation or injury to the disc, the facet joints, the ligaments or the muscles of the back is mechanical type back pain. Disc... Read >

Bulging disc information

A lot of people look at a herniated disc and a bulging disc as two in the same. This really is not very accurate although both conditions may cause some of the same painful symptoms. When a disc is herniated the gel like inner material is released throu... Read >

The Facts About Spine Surgeons

Today spine surgery can be performed by either a neurosurgeon or an orthopedic surgeon. There is an emerging field of "spine surgery" that incorporates both specialties. Although not currently the case, in the future, there may be a well-defined medical ... Read >

Open Back Surgery vs. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

How is an open discectomy performed?An open discectomy is performed under general anesthesia. The procedure takes about an hour or so, depending on the extent of the disc herniation, the size of the patient, and other factors. A discectomy is done with th... Read >

Information on Back Doctors

Managing your back pain can be difficult for many people. Along with general practitioners, there are many back doctors that have devoted the time to correcting more specific types of back and neck pain.If before the end of your treatment you find yourse... Read >

Finding The Right Spine Surgeon For You

If you are suffering from back or neck pain you usually look to your family doctor or primary care physician first for medical attention. Unfortunately many patients end up needed to go a step further and require the services of a spine specialist. A sp... Read >

Best Spine Surgeons

Unfortunately the process of finding a spine surgeon is still fairly archaic. Because there is no real data base on who is a good spine surgeon or who isn't, you are going to have to trust that your physician is referring you to the best spine surgeon po... Read >