Author: Alan Condon

Over the past four weeks, Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Orange County, Calif., has steadily ramped up to nearly normal inpatient volumes, according to Michael Gordon, MD, a spine surgeon who shared his thoughts with Becker's Spine Review.

Private equity firm MiddleGround Capital has acquired titanium materials distributors Supra Alloys and Edge International.

Raleigh, N.C.-based EmergeOrtho has teamed with Wake Research in Raleigh, N.C., to conduct clinical research on spinal pain.

Pewaukee-based Orthopaedic Associates of Wisconsin has paid $2.45 million to acquire land in Brookfield for its third location, according to a June 16 Milwaukee Business Journal report.

U.S. News & World Report ranked 50 pediatric hospitals for the treatment of serious neurological conditions such as epilepsy, head trauma and brain tumors.

U.S. News & World Report ranked 51 pediatric orthopedic hospitals for the treatment of scoliosis, spina bifida and complex fractures, among other conditions.

Spine surgeon Pierce Nunley, MD, performed the first procedure in a clinical trial examining the efficacy of a posterior cervical stabilization system in patients with three-level degenerative disc disease.

Here are 11 spine partnerships that Becker's Spine Review has reported on in 2020 so far:

A Hospital for Special Surgery study has found that two minimally invasive spine surgeries — lumbar decompression surgery and lumbar spinal fusion — achieve similar short-term outcomes.

Spine surgeon Jordan Glaser, MD, has joined Southeastern Orthopedics in Lumberton, N.C., The Robesonian reports.