Spine

Frank Phillips, MD, director of the section of minimally invasive spine surgery at Rush University Medical Center and a founding member of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush, discusses the institute and where the future is headed for minimally…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services division of outpatient care is considering the removal of cervical disc arthroplasty from the Medicare "inpatient only" list, a move which the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery supports.

The relationship between orthopedic spine surgeons and neurosurgeons has evolved over the past several decades. Thirty years ago, spine surgeons were trained to perform fusion procedures while neurosurgeons dealt with nerve decompression and oncology cases related to the spine. The…

Here are 20 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who are leaders at large academic medical centers.

Centegra Health System will soon open a Back and Spine Center in the Centegra Health Center in Huntley, Ill., according to a report in The Northwest Herald. Situated inside Centegra’s Immediate Care floor, the back and spine center, set to…

The University of Michigan Health System announced it will bulk up its hospital capacity and create hospital for diseases of the nervous system, which will include spinal treatment.

Robert Watkins, MD, a spine surgeon and co-director of the Marina Spine Clinic in Marina del Rey, Calif., performed spine surgery on Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

A magnetically controlled growing rod inserted along the spine has been found to correct scoliosis in several children patients in Hong Kong, according to a Med Page Today report.

Approximately 90 percent of neurosurgeons responding to an American Association of Neurological Surgeons survey reported being hospital-based surgeons, with 89 percent being full-time employees. Forty percent were single-specialty hospital based groups and most were in four-person practices. The survey was…

Richard Kube, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, formed Prairie Spine & Pain Institute in Peoria, Ill., three years ago with the goal of becoming a comprehensive integrated care spine center. This month, he got one step closer to his goal…