"I'm walking a lot right now," Carson Daly said on Thursday's TODAY, calling in to give an update on his health after undergoing his second back surgery in three months Carson Daly is opening up ...

Learn as much as you can about back surgery ahead of time ... and has become the standard surgical procedure for lumbar disc herniation. Sometimes a diskectomy is part of a larger surgery that ...

The lamina can be removed at the same time as the diskectomy. Or, you might have it taken out in a separate surgery. Spinal fusion. After a diskectomy or laminotomy, your surgeon may fuse together ...

Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Carson Daly is feeling optimistic about turning 50 — and bouncing back after having a major surgery ... Lumbar Interbody Fusion surgery, in which an intervertebral ...

As spine surgery continues to evolve with technological advances and a push toward value-based care, more procedures are ...

Lumbar (lower back) fusions are not common to return from for a variety of reasons. There is a good chance that surgery doesn't help and the pain doesn't improve. In the general population, it's about ...

If your surgeon recommends surgery for your herniated disc, microdiscectomy is one option. Other options may include a lumbar laminectomy, open discectomy, or lumbar fusion surgery. You should ...

Spinal Fusion ... and prevention Many people with lumbar disc herniation improve significantly with conservative treatment within a few weeks to months. Surgery has been shown by the literature ...

Neurological spine surgeon David Yam, MD, has joined the Spine Center at Prosser Memorial Health in Walla Walla, Wash. The ...