Spine
In the realm of spinal fusion surgery, the quest for faster, safer, and more reliable bone formation has led to…
Saqib Hasan, MD, has been practicing endoscopic spine surgery for nearly a decade, and he’s grown tired of a particular conversation. It’s the one where someone points to a study showing no significant long-term outcome difference between two surgical approaches,…
When Christopher Tomaras, MD, a neurosurgeon and owner of Alpharetta, Ga.-based Axion Spine & Neurosurgery, began practicing in Atlanta in 1998, hospital employment was barely part of the physician landscape. Nearly three decades later, he looks around the city and…
A study of 168 consecutive patients undergoing minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion found secondary cage collapse in 20.5% of patients who received the Catalyft PL expandable cage, compared with 1.8% of those who received the X-PAC cage. The retrospective,…
SpineLine, the publication of the North American Spine Society, has named its 2026 class of “20 Under 40,” recognizing emerging leaders across the spine care field. Honorees were selected based on professional accomplishments, leadership, scholarship and service to NASS and…
From patient demand and outpatient growth to steep learning curves and questions about cost and clinical fit, spine surgeons remain divided on where endoscopic surgery belongs in a health system’s priorities. Six spine surgeons discussed how aggressively programs should invest…
For much of the past two decades, the trajectory of minimally invasive spine surgery was easy to understand: Take operations once performed through large exposures and find a way to do them through smaller ones. Gregory Mundis Jr., MD, helped…
For much of modern spine surgery, fusion has been the dependable answer to a long list of structural problems: decompress the neural elements, stabilize the spine and accept the loss of motion as the price of a durable repair. Wilson…
AI can help determine which patients reach a spine surgeon, predict surgical risk, generate clinical notes and assist with treatment planning. But as the technology moves closer to actual care decisions, another question is becoming harder to avoid: When AI…
The Rochester (N.Y.) Spinal Association secured a $300,000 investment over three years from community partners as the organization marked its 35th anniversary, according to a Sept. 17 report by ABC affiliate WHAM-TV. The financial boost came during Spinal Cord Injury…
Endoscopic spine surgery has been billed as the next leap forward in minimally invasive care for over a decade, promising smaller incisions and faster recovery for patients with herniated discs and spinal stenosis. Yet outside a handful of high-volume adopters,…