Spine

Patients who have received a higher education have better improvement with nonoperative treatment than patients who have not completed higher education, according to a report published in Spine.

Despite the uncertainty associated with today's healthcare system, John Caruso, MD, a neurosurgeon with Parkway Neuroscience & Spine Institute in Hagerstown, Md., believes that now is a great time to be practicing medicine. His optimistic outlook focuses on the potential…

Vladimir Dadashev, MD, and Sachin N. Shah, MD, neurosurgeons with a professional interest in spine surgery, recently joined Neurological Surgery in Rockville Centre, N.Y., according to a practice news release.

An article recently published in Health Affairs examines the literature on percutaneous vertebroplasty and questions whether payors have appropriately adapted to new findings in the comparative effectiveness research to provide better patient outcomes at a lower cost.

Spine surgeons Denis S. Drummond, MD, and Ronald L. DeWald, MD, are the Scoliosis Research Society's 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award winners, according to an AAOS Now report.

Walter Eckman, MD, founder of Aurora Spine Center in Tupelu, Miss., has been performing a minimally invasive transformaminal lumbar interbody fusion technique in a hospital setting while enabling patient to go home the same day for more than 10 years.…

Spine surgeons have a higher prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders when compared with the general population, according to a study published in Spine.

Cervical disc arthroplasty increases total cervical range of motion, compared to anterior cervical discectomies and fusions, and could decrease the risk for adjacent segment breakdown, according to a story published in Spine.

The Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at the University of Louisville researchers received more than $13.7 million in extramural funding over the past year, according to a University of Louisville Today news report.

A recent study published in Spine showed that the formation of anti-BMP-2 antibodies is low and transient in spinal fusion patients, and the formation of antibodies doesn't affect fusion rates or have clinical sequelae.