Spine Surgery & Patient Education

What a microdiscectomy is, who it helps, and what recovery looks like, explained by the spine neurosurgeons at Neuroscience Specialists, Oklahoma City.

A step-by-step guide to how workers' compensation spine surgery works in Oklahoma: approvals, treatment and recovery, from Neuroscience Specialists.

How to tell back pain from sciatica, what causes each, and when to see a specialist, from the neurosurgeons at Neuroscience Specialists in Oklahoma City.

What adult degenerative scoliosis is, how it causes pain, and the treatment options, explained by the neurosurgeons at Neuroscience Specialists, OKC.

Signs a work-related injury needs neurosurgical evaluation, and what to do next, from the workers' comp spine team at Neuroscience Specialists, OK.

What an independent medical examination (IME) involves and why it is used in workers' comp cases, from Neuroscience Specialists in Oklahoma.

For decades, patients diagnosed with lumbar spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis who failed conservative care had essentially one surgical option: spinal fusion. Fusion works — it decompresses the ne

When and how to return to work after spine surgery in Oklahoma, including workers' comp guidance, from the neurosurgeons at Neuroscience Specialists.

Comparing non-surgical and surgical treatment for work-related back injuries in Oklahoma, and what to expect, from Neuroscience Specialists.

If your spine surgeon has mentioned minimally invasive surgery, you may be wondering what that actually means — and how it differs from traditional spine surgery. The short answer is that minimally in

When a lumbar disc degenerates severely enough to cause persistent pain and nerve compression, patients and surgeons have historically turned to spinal fusion — permanently joining two vertebrae toget