Spine

A new study presented at the North American Spine Society's annual meeting in Chicago shows that aging patients can reap benefits from several different treatment options for back pain, including spine surgery, according to a NASS news release.

A $7 million private-room orthopedic and neurosurgery unit is now open at Detroit Medical Center's Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Commerce, Mich., according to a Detroit News report.

Spine surgeon James Weinstein, DO, has been appointed president and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, based in Lebanon, N.H., according to a university news release.

Here are 10 spine surgeons who have been involved in clinical trials for cervical and lumbar artificial discs.

A study recently published in Spine compared cervical spine biomechanics after patients either underwent total disc replacement adjacent to a fusion or a two-level fusion.

Here are 12 spine and neurosurgeons who recently joined a new practice or were promoted to a new position.

For the past few years, minimally invasive spine surgery has described several different procedures. Professional spine societies are now working to narrow the definition of proven minimally invasive procedures and promoting the education and use of these procedures with appropriately…

George D. Picetti, III, MD, a spine surgeon, recently joined Sutter Neurosciences Medical Group and Sutter Neuroscience Institute at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., according to a Sutter news release.

Performing a caudal epidural injection with local anesthetic with or without steroids could be an effective treatment for patients with disc herniation or radiculitis, according to a study published in Spine.

Bacterin has released results from the two-year study for OsteoSponge, an osteoinductive and osteoconductive bone scaffold to promote spinal fusion, according to a Bacterin news release.