https://youtu.be/GX5moqfmS3o Lumbar Spine Surgery Patient- Rickey O. from Las Vegas, NV is a hard working, family man who loves to stay active. But one day in 2005, while helping a neighbor shovel some rocks he heard a popping sound in his back and this began his struggle with pain for over a decade. He [...]
The following information is excerpted from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) -- a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) . If you have lower back pain, you are not alone. About 80% of adults experience low back pain at some point in their lifetimes. Men and women are equally [...]
Many of the patients at the Bonati Spine Institute travel into the Tampa Bay area from both near and far. No matter if you’re coming from another state or simply the other coast of Florida, it is important that you and your travel companions have somewhere to take it easy before and after the procedure. [...]
The below article is excerpted from Harvard Medical School’s Harvard Health Publishing Healthbeat. Virtually every activity you do relies on ease of motion. Stretching can help in numerous ways. It can often relieve back pain, stiff necks, and sore knees when tight muscles are to blame. It can counteract too much sitting whether you're doing [...]
https://youtu.be/V0jsmogRBM0 Natasha spends her life in servicing the health and wellness of both people and poodles. However, pain in her spine almost robbed her of both her career and her passion. She visited a physician who told her she had fibromyalgia, an often misdiagnosed condition, and did nothing more than provide her with pain [...]
The term spondylolisthesis derives from two words: spondylo, which means spine, and listhesis, which means slippage. Spondylolisthesis is a condition in which a vertebra in the spinal column slips backward or forward and out of its original place, when compared to the vertebra adjacent to it. If a vertebra slips too much, it can press [...]
This article is republished from a TIME article, written by Jamie Ducharme on October 10, 2018. Standing desks became trendy because of their ability to cut into your sitting time, thereby improving your health and wellness in the workplace. And a small new study says the benefits don’t stop there: standing desks may actually improve your job performance, too. Office [...]
August is National Ambulatory Surgical Center Month! Designated by the Ambulatory Surgical Center Association, National ASC Month is intended to celebrate ASCs and the ASC industry, and help raise awareness of the multitude of benefits surgery centers deliver to their communities and the healthcare system as a whole. The Bonati Spine Institute was the first [...]
https://youtu.be/3k3NUF6TTQU United States Army Veteran Chris Dreher first experienced pain while serving in Afghanistan in 2003. He pushed through the pain in his lower back and legs, but in 2009, his pain ended his military career. In 2015, he had his first visit to the Bonati Spine Institute. Dr. Bonati diagnosed Chris with a [...]
This article is excerpted from The Spine Blog of SPINE medical journal, written by Adam Pearson MD, MS, on January 25, 2019 and the study discussed, published in SPINE on February 1, 2019. The opioid epidemic has been widely studied, and many narcotic addicts had their first exposure to opioids via a prescription for pain [...]
