Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen has opened a $12 million sports medicine center, The Dallas Morning News reported Feb. 25.

The Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center has opened at the Atlanta Falcons' Flowery Branch, Ga., training facility, Fox5 Atlanta reported Feb. 25.

Eight surgeons discuss the future of motion preservation in the cervical and lumbar spine and how its development will affect spinal fusion.

Concord (N.H.) Hospital's looming acquisition of LRGHealthcare in Laconia, N.H., has raised concerns about access to orthopedic care in the community, but leaders of the organizations are trying to push the deal through, The Laconia Daily Sun reports.

In the last month, Becker's has reported on three new spine and orthopedic institutes in Arizona, Connecticut and Florida:

Device company Aurora Spine said Feb. 24 that it received loan proceeds of $350,140 under the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program, as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

Medtronic Chair and CEO Geoff Martha was optimistic about sales of its spine surgery robot increasing in the coming year during the company's Feb. 23 third-quarter conference call, as transcribed by The Motley Fool.

NuVasive made its first transaction of 2021, acquiring Simplify Medical in a multimillion dollar deal.

Here are four orthopedic surgeons making headlines over the past week:

U.K.-based Axis Spine Technologies closed a $3.1 million (£2.2 million) funding round, Finsmes reported Feb. 24.

Two neurosurgeons from the University of California San Francisco completed the first spine surgery with Carlsmed's aprevo, a patient-specific interbody for the treatment of adult spinal deformity.

Ortho Regenerative Technologies has welcomed Patrick O' Donnell, president and CEO of HD LifeSciences, to its board of directors.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth broke ground on what will be the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute's Florida headquarters.

The orthopedics program at Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona Healthcare has been designated as an Orthopedic and Spine Institute, two years after its inception, the Arizona Daily Sun reported Feb. 22.

Atlanta-based Emory University entered into a partnership with Rimdi to launch a fast healthcare interoperable resource app, the company launched Feb. 23.

Neurosurgeon Sharad Rajpal, MD, completed Louisville, Colo.-based Centura-Avista Adventist Hospital's first spinal fusion involving Midas Rex high-speed drills with Medtronic's Mazor robot., Colorado Hometown Weekly reported Feb. 23.

From the latest surgical robots receiving FDA approval to a new training program for oblique lateral interbody fusions, here are seven device company updates:

Professional golfer Tiger Woods is recovering from surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after sustaining injuries in a Feb. 23 car accident, according to The New York Times.

Here's how Medtronic, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson's shares have fluctuated over the last five days.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Connecticut Orthopaedic Institute at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport will be held Feb. 24, four years after sister hospital MidState Medical Center in Meriden debuted the institute's first location.