Spine

Laser Spine Institute recently opened a consultation facility in Albuquerque, N.M., according to a company news release.

Cervical arthroplasty can have good intermediate clinical outcome for patients, although more shapes and sizes of artificial cervical discs should be produced to fit patients of all ethnicities, according to a study published in Spine.

Hal Silcox, MD, of Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinics in Atlanta, recently performed outpatient spine surgery on Atlanta Hawks forward Marvin Williams, according to an SB Nation Atlanta news report.

The physician-patient relationship is valuable to all practitioners and imperative to spine specialists working for the best outcomes. In many practices, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants or other specialists conduct the preoperative and postoperative visits to increase efficiency and allow surgeons…

Geron recently presented data from the ongoing Phase 1 of the clinical trial for its human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for patients with spinal cord injury, according to a company news release.

Brian E. Capaldi, DC, has joined Laser Spine Institute in Philadelphia as a chiropractic physician on staff to serve as a consultant and speak at seminars, according to a company news release.

Preoperative pulmonary function tests are clinically impaired in 19 percent of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients, and correlate with main thoracic and sagittal plane deformity, according to a study published in Spine.

Neel Anand, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles). Dr. Anand is the director of orthopedic spine surgery at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, where he also researches minimally invasive surgical techniques for spinal disorders and traumas. During his career, he has been…

Spine surgeon Mitchell Garden, MD, of New Milford Hospital in Danbury, Conn., performed the state's first sacroiliac joint fixation surgery using the iFuse implant system, according to a hospital report.

The complications associated with posterior surgery C2 screw placement may be lower than previously thought, as new developments allow for several choices in posterior C2 fixation, according to a study published in Spine.