Smith+Nephew received FDA 510(k) clearance for its LANDMARK Total Knee System and completed the first surgical case using the knee replacement technology. The LANDMARK Knee is designed for total knee arthroplasty and can be used with Smith+Nephew’s CORI KNEE Handheld…
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Exeter (N.H.) Hospital and Portsmouth, N.H.-based Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine signed an affiliation agreement to expand orthopedic services in the region, according to a Sept. 22 Foster’s Daily Democrat report. The affiliation is expected to take effect Jan. 1,…
Spine surgery has become increasingly capable of correcting severe deformities. Kristen Jones, MD, is interested in a different measure of progress: whether surgeons can keep more patients from ever needing those operations. Dr. Jones, an associate professor of neurosurgery and…
When Christopher Tomaras, MD, a neurosurgeon and owner of Alpharetta, Ga.-based Axion Spine & Neurosurgery, began practicing in Atlanta in 1998, hospital employment was barely part of the physician landscape. Nearly three decades later, he looks around the city and…
A study of 168 consecutive patients undergoing minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion found secondary cage collapse in 20.5% of patients who received the Catalyft PL expandable cage, compared with 1.8% of those who received the X-PAC cage. The retrospective,…
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Noblesville-based Indiana Orthopedic Institute has named Jennifer Worthy as chief operating officer. Ms. Worthy brings more than two decades of healthcare leadership experience spanning orthopedic and multispecialty physician practices, ASCs, specialty hospital operations and physical therapy. She most recently served…
SpineLine, the publication of the North American Spine Society, has named its 2026 class of “20 Under 40,” recognizing emerging leaders across the spine care field. Honorees were selected based on professional accomplishments, leadership, scholarship and service to NASS and…
Orthopedic training has spent decades moving toward specialization. Sports medicine. Adult reconstruction. Hand. Foot and ankle. Spine. Surgeons increasingly build careers around narrower areas of expertise, often concentrating in large health systems and metropolitan markets. Charles Holliday, MD, had every…
New York City-based Spine Associates of NYC expanded into New Jersey with the opening of Spine Associates of New Jersey in Cedar Knolls, N.J. The new practice gives New Jersey patients access to its New York City surgeons, according to…
From patient demand and outpatient growth to steep learning curves and questions about cost and clinical fit, spine surgeons remain divided on where endoscopic surgery belongs in a health system’s priorities. Six spine surgeons discussed how aggressively programs should invest…