Author: Staff

NBA physicians, trainers, players and teams increasingly rely on sports analytics and devices to prevent injuries.

Idaho Falls-based Bingham Memorial Hospital has advanced its spine surgery program by purchasing Israel-based Mazor Robotics' Mazor X, according to East Idaho News.

Paris-based EOS imaging has sold an EOS x-ray system to Orlando, Fla.-based Nemours Children's Hospital after two previous sales to the Jacksonville, Fla.-based health system.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a review on the book by late Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, MD, which he labeled "amazing," on gatesnotes.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Simplify Medical develops the Simplify cervical artificial disc, which is currently an investigational device in the U.S. The Simplify disc has earned the CE Mark, with surgeons treating 600 patients outside the United States so far.

Los Angeles-based Keck Hospital of University of Southern California enrolled a new patient in the INSPIRE Study.

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery welcomed spine surgeon Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA.

Warsaw, Ind.-based OrthoPediatrics Corp. sponsored the 3rd International Children's Spine Symposium in Orlando, Fla., from March 3 to 4, 2017.

It is not uncommon that patients seeking care for back and neck pain will report a lengthy and often frustrating process of getting relief.

A spine fracture leads to a downward spiral of complications for elderly people, often resulting in death.