Spine

A recent study in The Spine Journal finds that patients with reportedly higher levels of depression before operation were less likely than patients with lower levels to improve after revision surgery for adjacent segment disease (ASD), pesudoarthrosis and recurrent stenosis.

There are several steps spine surgeons must take when migrating their cases from the inpatient setting to an outpatient surgery center. Beyond the appropriate training, surgeons must consider how their practice will change as a result of the transition and…

Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, chief of the scoliosis service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and founder and president of the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine, has opened a 50-bed orthopedic and rehabilitation hospital in Ghana, Africa.

Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, neurosurgeon and CEO of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., believes that outpatient surgery centers and spine specialty hospitals are the future of elective spine surgery. He moved out of his…

Here are seven ways spine surgeons can succeed in competitive markets.

The Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute in Chicago recently opened, with former basketball star and television sports caster Bill Walton attending as special guest.

United Hospital Center in Bridgeport, W.Va., will partner with West Virginia University Healthcare to open a new neurosurgery, spine and pain center, according to a WBOY report.

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…