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                                            February 22, 2023
                                            
                                        
                                        Once the surgeon finishes your spine surgery, a key component to recovery is walking – further and sooner than you…
                                     
                                
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                                            June 06, 2022
                                            
                                        
                                        By Gregory Kuzmik, MD It’s estimated that more than three million Americans are living with a herniated disc in their…
                                     
                                
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                                            March 15, 2022
                                            
                                        
                                        Back pain is the second-most common type of pain, but only a small percentage of people ever need back surgery….
                                     
                                
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                                            December 14, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        Pelvic floor dysfunction is often associated with women, especially after childbirth. But pelvic floor dysfunction affects people of all genders…
                                     
                                
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                                            October 15, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        Two months after performing the first awake spine surgery at Hartford HealthCare (HHC), neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Yanamadala became the first…
                                     
                                
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                                            October 13, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        John Collins may be 72, but he likes to stay in shape, walking every day until the pain in his…
                                     
                                
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                                            August 02, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        When the 65-year-old man came to the Spine Wellness Center, he had already undergone several surgeries on his spine and…
                                     
                                
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                                            April 21, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        The main difference between practicing medicine in his native Brazil and the United States, according to neurosurgeon Dr. Pedro Coutinho,…
                                     
                                
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                                            April 14, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        Pain stems from visible causes, a wound or break, but when the reason is less obvious a health psychologist can…
                                     
                                
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                                            March 30, 2021
                                            
                                        
                                        [pullquote]“I tell every patient the best surgery is no surgery. It is the last resort after we’ve tried every other…