Spine

Austin-based Ascension Seton added custom-fabricated, patient-specific spinal implants for complex spine reconstruction, according to a June 10 news release. Rory Mayer, MD, and Alex Cruz, MD, at Ascension Texas Spine and Scoliosis, use high-resolution imaging data to design implants matched…

From the first visit to final recovery, Jeremy Smith, MD, says his job goes beyond the operating room, and he wants referring physicians to know exactly what that commitment looks like in practice. Dr. Smith, chief of spine surgery at…

Several practices and hospitals are looking to add spine surgeons to their teams. Here are 10 open positions, using LinkedIn’s job search tool. 1. Wyoming Orthopedics & Spine in Gillette seeks an orthopedic spine surgeon. 2. Rush University Medical Center…

Every week, Keven Burns, MD, sees patients who tell him some version of the same story. They thought it was just aging. The spine surgeon at the Scottsdale-based Spine Institute of Arizona hears the story from retirees who can no…

Bundled payment programs assume a level of uniformity that spine surgery patients often don’t have, and for value-based medicine to work, surgeons say that models should address the nuance. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to…

Neurosurgery continues to advance through innovations in brain tumor treatment, cerebrovascular care, spine surgery, functional neurosurgery and minimally invasive techniques. Across the country, a select group of neurosurgeons is helping shape the field through clinical excellence, groundbreaking research, leadership and…

Dr. David Prior, MD, joined OrthoArizona in Phoenix, according to a June 8 LinkedIn post. Dr Prior is an orthopedic spine surgeon, and his expertise includes minimally invasive and robotic-assisted spine surgery, complex revision surgery, spinal deformity correction and motion-preserving.…

SpinaFX Medical earned the FDA’s investigational device exemption for Triojection, an intradiscal ozone/oxygen injection, according to a June 9 news release. Triojection will be evaluated in a U.S. clinical trial comparing it and nerve root block with nerve root block…

The University of Miami Health System has opened an early-intervention spine clinic aimed at patients with persistent back pain whose needs fall between conservative treatment and traditional spine surgery. The clinic is led by Michael Wang, MD, professor of neurological…

L&K Spine Announces World’s First Clinical Use of BluEX-LT Curved Expandable Lateral Cage L&K Spine, the U.S. subsidiary of L&K Biomed, is proud to announce the successful first-in-human clinical use of the BluEX-LT, its state-of-the-art curved expandable lateral cage. This…