Tiger Woods’ April 2017 spinal-fusion surgery will go down as one of the most famous, impactful procedures in sports history. It revived Woods’ career, allowing him to rebound from the ultimate depths ...

The comparative effectiveness of performing instrumented (rigid pedicle screws affixed to titanium alloy rods) lumbar spinal fusion in addition to decompressive laminectomy in patients with ...

Spinal fusion is surgery to join two or more vertebrae into one single structure. The goal is to stop movement between the two bones and prevent back pain. Once they’re fused, they no longer move like ...

In the wake of Tiger Woods’s arrest on Memorial Day for driving under the influence, much attention has been paid to his drug use. The incident — wherein he was found asleep at the steering wheel ...

Houston-based Rice University bioengineering and mechanical engineering students have been named finalists in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition for VacuTrac, a device designed to make spinal ...