Back Surgery

And just think, Orioles fans, they got this far without Nolan Reimold. Remember him? No. 14. Tall, good-looking guy, 28 years old. Left fielder at the start of the season and the Orioles' lead-off batter to replace the injured Brian Roberts. (Remember...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Finally, it seems the Notre Dame football coach I thought the school hired in December 2009 has shown up for work. Too often since Day 1, when Brian Kelly has spoken his political background becomes obvious within two sentences....

Robin McCool last week made the 12th hole in one of his distinguished amateur golf career. To celebrate, he just might send the ball to his back surgeon. "I think he'll like that," McCool said. "He saved my game." After two surgeries and countless...

Thursday, Peyton Manning went in for an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Doctors went into the star quarterback's neck to get to the troublesome disc in his spine and remove it. "Under the microscope we can work thru the disc space, working...

You've been bad. Very bad. You know it, and you told me so. You've crammed your purse with way too much "stuff"— you had another more expressive word for it — and now you've got the exhaustion, sore shoulders and aching back to prove it. "Am...

A North Hollywood High student who broke his neck during a football tryout in 2008 has been awarded $2.4 million in damages in an arbitration ruling against the Los Angeles Unified School District. Johnny Rider was 15 when he injured......

UCLA cornerback Anthony Jefferson, who underwent back surgery Monday, could return in time for the Oct. 1 game against Stanford, according to a person familiar with the situation but who is not authorized to talk about injuries. Jefferson, a redshirt........

The San Diego Zoo said goodbye last week to Alvila, a 45-year-old western lowland gorilla who was the first gorilla to be born there. Alvila was euthanized Thursday morning after zoo staff determined that her pain could no longer be......

RALEIGH, N.C. — When Beverly Tucker's dog Tobi ruptured a disc in his back, the veterinarian gave her a stark choice: expensive surgery with little chance of success, or euthanasia. Thanks to medical advances and shifting attitudes about animal care,......

Health issues force conductor James Levine to reduce appearances, again...

Stacy Lewis, the 25-year-old from The Woodlands, Texas, who is an eager participant in charities that benefit sufferers from scoliosis (curvature of the spine), which put Lewis in a body cast when she was 11 and caused her to need......

Gov. Tom Corbett ... ... will undergo surgery in Pittsburgh on Monday for treatment of "spinal stenosis" at Allegheny General Hospital, the administration said today. According to the administration, "Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal,...