Spine

Chicago's Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute announced it will open its doors April 25, with a little help from a big name in basketball.

"There is a saying in spine — you never want to be the first, you never want to be the last [to do something new]," says Brian Massoud, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Spine Centers of America in Fair…

Although many research and journal publications show that minimally invasive techniques for spine procedures are beneficial clinically, the adoption of techniques has been slow.

The Midwest Spine Institute, with several locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, celebrates 25 years of business this year.

Gunnar Andersson, MD, a spine surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, recently received the Orthopaedic Research Society's Alfred R. Shands Jr., MD Award and Lecture, according to an AAOS Now report.

Dr. Jared Brandoff, a spinal surgeon and fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, has joined the medical team at White Plains Hospital in New York in a recent division that aligns hospital services with physicians.

Seven spine surgeons discuss the number of cases they could bring into an ambulatory surgery center.

The Center for Musculoskeletal Care at New York University's Langone Medical Center, a stand-alone facility that combines therapeutic and medical technology with the full services of NYU's medical center, opened its doors last week.

Kenneth Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon in Loveland, Colo., and co-founder of the Society for Ambulatory Spine Surgery, discusses the inaugural meeting of SASS last November in Chicago.

Mary LeGrand, RN, MA, CCS-P, CPC, senior consultant with KarenZupko & Associates, recently outlined steps to make sure spinal injection are coded accurately in an AAOS Now report.