Spine

The drastic increase in spinal fusions performed by surgeons in the United States has been attributed to several factors, including economic incentives for providers and relationships with device companies. However, there are several other, more subtle, factors that have contributed…

The Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Dallas, which is a Meridian Surgical Partners facility, is the first surgery center to purchase the O-Arm Surgical Imaging System, which provides intraoperative CT navigation, to improve surgical precision and reduce the need…

Spine surgery has gone through a tidal wave of change in the thirty years, and Chris Lycette, MD, a spine surgeon and co-chief of the Division of Spine Surgery at Bethlehem, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network for nearly a decade,…

Jacksonville (Fla.) Orthopaedic Institute expanded care to include spine pain therapy and non-invasive services.

Here are 10 spine surgeons at community hospitals.

NuVasive reported revenue of $151.7 million during the first quarter of 2012, a 21.9 percent increase over the same period last year.

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…