Spine

DISC Sports and Spine Care in Marina Del Rey, Calif., will be opening a new facility in Newport Beach in August, according to a DISC news release.

Selective segmental transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion can be used to correct lumbar lordosis, segmental deformity and translation, which means it can have good outcomes for patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis, according to an article published in Spine.

Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons who have moved during the first few months of 2011.

Donald S. Corenman, MD, DC, a spine surgeon at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., recently published a for patients with back pain titled Everything You Want to Know About the Back, according to a news release.

Insurance carriers across the country are scaling back the coverage indications for spine surgery, which could potentially leave spine surgeons without the ability to treat thousands of patients who could benefit from surgical intervention. Spine surgeons and societies have been…

In a recent study, researchers found that the number of neurological complications associated with cervical laminoplasty on patients with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament were greater than they anticipated, according to an article published in Spine.

Richard A. Kaul, MD, founder of New Jersey Spine and Rehabilitation in Pomptom Lakes, recently launched a program called Project Backbone, which provides free consultation, pain management intervention and minimally invasive spine surgery to veterans of the recent military action…

The success rates of total disc arthroplasty for military patients is now approaching 80 percent, according to a new study published in The Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques.

Hospital-based multidisciplinary intervention may not be better than brief intervention to increase return to work and improve health in patients with low back pain, according to a study published in Spine.

Thomas Zdeblick, MD, a spine surgeon and chairman of the department of orthopedics and rehabilitation at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who co-authored three studies with Medtronic and received the highest-known physician payments from the company at $21 million,…