The current recommended approach in lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TF-ESI) is based on the concept of "the safe triangle," an anatomical target area that is supposed to avoid ...

Neurosurgeon Michael Fromke, MD, led Miami-based HCA Florida Kendall Hospital’s first robot-assisted transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. The surgery was done at the L4 to L5 level with the ...

Scott Glaser, MD, an interventional pain management physician and president of the Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago in Burr Ridge, Ill., has conducted research into the cause of paraplegia in ...

Carlsbad, California–based Carlsmed designed the Aprevo devices to match the unique anatomical and alignment needs of each ...

In this paper, the authors reviewed the first 100 cases of single- or two-level awake, endoscopic, minimally invasive, transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) at the University of Miami ...

The transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedure is a surgery designed to fuse two segments of bone together. The reasons for doing this can be to correct a deformity of the spine or to treat ...

SpineThera's research reveals that approximately 3.5 million lumbar TF-ESIs are performed annually in the United States. Therefore, achieving 70% market penetration signifies an outstanding market ...

TLIF is a complex surgical procedure aiming to reduce or eliminate pain in the lumbar spine because of degenerative disc disease (DDD) by removing a damaged disc and then uniting (fusing) the ...

SAN DIEGO — Older adults who undergo minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion have comparable pain, disability and quality of life outcomes with younger adults, according to a ...

In 2024, she underwent a transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedure with Dr. Dorenkamp to address the lumbar spinal stenosis, and has now fully recovered and is doing well.