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Neel Anand, MD, is the director of orthopedic spine surgery at Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was previously the director of minimally invasive spinal surgery and director of spine trauma at Cedars-Sinai.…
1. Lateral interbody spine surgery. One of the most rapidly growing fields in spine surgery over the past five years is the lateral approach to the thoracic and lumbar spine. This allows excellent access to the disc space with less…
Only screening young girls for scoliosis means schools and physicians are missing a significant portion of the children who have curvature of the spine, according to an article published in Spine.
SpinalVu, the Sarasota, Fla.-based spinal device company, has begun production on the X-Wave cervical interbody system and X-Wave lumbar interbody system, according to a Global-Med Technologies Group news release.
BioMedGPS, a provider of real-time online business intelligence and decision-making tools, recently introduced the second model of its SmartTRAK online system, the SmartTRAK Spine, according to a company news release.
Lan Fotopoulos, MD, an interventional physiatrist with Dickson-Diveley Midwest Orthopaedic Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., has employed the minimally invasive lumbar decompression procedure into his practice, according to an MD News report.
Pennsylvania now offers the BrainSTEPS program as a free, statewide endeavor to help student athletes meet their educational needs while recovering from a traumatic brain injury, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
Jon Dickinson, MD, board chairman of Presidio Surgery Center in San Francisco, has been named the new team orthopedist for the Oakland Athletics after a lawsuit separated the club from its former team physician, according to an Oakland A's news…
Giles R. Scuderi, MD, vice president of orthopedic surgery at North Shore-LIJ Health System, is one of the leading physicians at the Great Neck, N.Y.-based Franklin Hospital, which was recently ranked as the best hospital in Long Island for joint…