OrthoAtlanta, part of Piedmont Orthopedics, will serve as the official orthopedic and sports medicine partner of the Aflac Kickoff Games for another year in a row, continuing a streak it has held since 2008, according to an Aug. 29 system…
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UC San Diego Health has become the first health system in the world to perform an anterior cervical spine surgery using a fully personalized implant tailored to a patient’s anatomy, according to an Aug. 28 system news release. The July…
Nantucket (Mass.) Cottage Hospital has added four orthopedic physicians to its staff, according to an Aug. 28 report from Nantucket Current. John Tierney, DO, Thomas Wuerz, MD, Martin Dolan, MD, and Alfred Hanmer, MD, will provide orthopedic services at the…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has issued an updated clinical practice guideline for the management of rotator cuff injuries, according to an Aug. 28 news release from the AAOS. Here are five things to know: View the full guideline…
At Medical City Fort Worth (Texas), Paul Henry Cho, MD, is pushing forward spine innovation. Dr. Cho completed the hospital’s first motion-preserving surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis. For that case, other spinal fusion alternatives were considered, but…
Anthony Giuffrida, MD, of The Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute in Fort Lauderdale, performed the first basivertebral nerve ablation using Stryker’s Optiblate system in South Florida. His patient was a 73-year-old man with chronic axial low back pain and Modic…
Aurora Spine recorded $4.5 million in revenue during the second quarter of 2025, according to an Aug. 29 news release from the company. Here are eight more notes on the company’s second quarter:
Carlsmed, a spine company developing personalized implants, saw a 99% increase in its second quarter revenue year over year, according to financial results posted Aug. 28. Five things to know: 1. Second-quarter revenue was $12.1 million compared to $6.1 million…
Edmund Rowland, MD, a hand surgeon with Golden, Colo.-based Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center, is retiring, the practice said in an August. 28 LinkedIn post. Dr. Rowland spent 18 years with Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center, and his career spans…
Finding ways to cut unnecessary spending is crucial for healthcare organizations and surgeons, especially when it comes with the added benefit of enhancing operations. Robert Huler, MD, is a spine surgeon at OrthoIndy, a large physician-owned single and multispecialty hospital…