After 40+ years in the field of spine surgery and 20 years of performing total disc replacements, my observations are that lumbar total disc replacements ...

It’s important to have a lot of tools in your toolbox and to know how and when to use them. Preoperative planning is essential, however, ...

Spinal endoscopy and total disc replacements are where it is at. After 40+ years performing spine surgery I can attest the new technologies of ultra ...

After 40+ years of performing spinal operations and 20 years of performing total disc replacements my observations are that total disc replacement patients do far ...

Supposedly when Michelangelo was asked how he carved the statue of David he said he cut away everything that didn’t look like David! In a ...

Not a one trick pony. Total disc replacements, spinal endoscopy and a pretty darn good cook. A little bit of prep work and about 25 ...

Life is motion; motion is life. New technologies, allow levels that used to be welded and fused together to keep moving. Incredibly important for life#therealdrc716 ...

As technology evolves we will find that the minimally invasive surgeries that have been traditionally performed over the past 10 years will be become less ...

Prior to the advent of instrumentation, people that suffered from collapsing degenerative scoliosis ( our grandparents) had no alternative to chronic severe pain and loss ...

Although we make the incisions much smaller than 10 or 20 years ago, modern day, scoliosis surgery is still quite demanding on the patient and ...

In a person’s life, there can be months or years where nothing seems to happen. And then there can be minutes when everything seems to ...

Total Disc Replacement Nation View this post on Instagram A post shared by William Capicotto, MD | Spine Surgeon (@therealdrc716) ...