Spine

Nicholas Mataragas, MD, a spine surgeon with the The Spine Center of Downers Grove (Ill.), which is part of the DuPage Medical Group, has joined Medtronic's faculty.

Nick Shamie, MD, co-director of the UCLA Comprehensive Spine Center and associate professor in orthopedic surgery at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, discusses the importance of spine surgeons working with other specialists on clinical and policy issues related…

Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons around the country about clinical, business and policy issues affecting spine care. We invite all spine surgeon and specialist responses. Next week's question: What is the biggest…

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.