Author: Staff

Here are five spine surgeons making headlines last week.

The Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle, Ind., released updates on its pain management center, according to a Banner Graphic report.

Even though Medtronic missed revenue goals in the most recent financial report, an analyst with Seeking Alpha predicts the company will experience "stellar growth" in the next half-decade.

A study presented at the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Global Forum in 2014 examined opioid consumption in the workman's compensation patient population after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.

A new study published in Spine examines the complications for patients who underwent oblique lateral interbody fusion between April 2013 and May 2015.

Miguel Pirela-Cruz, MD, and other team members of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso went on a mission trip to Guatemala to provide children with free hand surgery, according to El Paso Herald-Post.

The Denver Post profiles knee surgeon Richard Steadman, MD, of Vail, Colo.-based Steadman Clinic, and speaks to his many accolades in medicine and throughout this life.

April A. Erwin, MD, a board-certified neurologist at The NeuroMedical Center in Baton Rouge, La., provides six key strategies for enhancing overall neurological health.

Through 2020, a Market Report Worlds analysis found the lumbar spine fusion market will likely grow substantially, according to medGadget.

Mark Jo, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Pasadena, Calif.-based Huntington Orthopedics