Spine

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons have released the first new set of acute cervical spine and spinal cord injury focused guidelines in the past decade.

Spine Institute Northwest in Seattle has announced that a recent study lead by Andrew Pugely, MD, of the University of Iowa has found that outpatient spinal surgery is a safer option for patients.

The second phase of a $23.1 million expansion of Community Howard Regional Health in Kokomo, Ind., will include a spine center, according to a Kokomo Perspective report.

Four spine surgeons talk about which spinal technologies they see the most potential for positively impacting patient care.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, March 21, 2013.

The Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine has announced that Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, professor and attending surgeon of orthopaedics and neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and a partner at the Rothman Institute, has been chosen as co-chairman of the…

Marc Cohen, MD, a spine surgeon based in New Jersey, discusses four big coverage challenges for spine surgeons and how changes should be made to the system in the future.

Researchers of Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia have created an anatomically based scale for the diagnosis of cervical spinal stenosis.

Bryan Oh, MD, a neurosurgeon with a special interest in minimally invasive spine surgery at BASIC Spine in Orange, Calif., discusses seven steps for spine groups to add an ambulatory surgery center. BASIC Spine is currently in the process of…

Within our ever changing world of healthcare the need for spine surgeons to direct their focus on lowering the rates for hospital readmissions is on the rise. Hospital readmissions are more commonly being used to gauge standards of care and…