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A petition has been created on the White House Website that urges the government to include acupuncture under CMS and Federal Employee Insurance. The petition says that including acupuncture will "maximize results, end needless suffering & save huge amounts of…
When presented with imaging tools that were not user-friendly for spine surgeons, Frank Schwab, MD, and his colleagues decided to tackle the problem head-on. Their pragmatic approach to solving their problem includes partnering with business leaders, software experts and programmers…
CMS has released guidance (pdf) on electronic health record meaningful use requirements for clinical quality measures, according to an AHA News Now report.
Researchers at Frazier Rehab Institute and the University of Louisville (Ky.) have been awarded a $2.2 million grant to establish a Spinal Cord Injury Model System.
The California Physical Therapy Board has ruled that physical therapists cannot be employed by medical corporations, even though other state laws support the provision of physical therapy by medical groups, according to an AAOS Now report.
K2M, a Leesburg, Va.-based spine device company, has named three new members of its international leadership team, according to a K2M news report.
ProMedica recently opened the ProMedica Wildwood Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, which is ProMedica's first all-digital hospital. The new 70,000-square-foot facility includes six operating rooms and 36 private patient rooms, as well as a fully-integrated electronic medical record…
Non-clinical factors such as sex, socioeconomic status and patient presentation influence physician decisions regarding the diagnosis and treatment for non-specific low back pain, according to a report published in Spine.
In a new study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers show that platelet-rich plasma injections for treating chronic lateral elbow epicondylitis can significantly reduce pain at the six-week follow-up when compared with autologous whole blood injections, according…