Spine

The North American Spine Society will sponsor one person to participate in the 2011 Clinician Scholar Development Program, according to a NASS news release.

Kapil Moza, MD, a neurosurgeon at Thousand Oaks, Calif., was the first neurosurgeon in his area to complete a cervical artificial disc replacement in 2007 and has implanted 10 more since then without complications, according to a MD News report.

Jeff Leland is CEO of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners.   Q: We are an ASC looking to add spine surgery. What spine procedures are typically performed in an ambulatory surgery center?   Jeff Leland: Generally speaking, discectomies, decompressions, laminotomies,…

Spine Surgical Innovation has announced the launching of the Minimal Incision-Maximum Sight (MIMS) Institute.

The federal government has launched an investigation into adult scoliosis treatment after reports were released suggesting that the U.S. spends about $860 billion on therapy, braces and pain injections when spine surgery may be the best option, according to an…

The following article is written by Jeff Leland, CEO of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners.   There is no doubt that the market for outpatient spine surgery continues to evolve and mature. However, surgeons who wish to develop a spine-focused…

Joseph Weistroffer, MD, assistant professor of orthopedic and neurological surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, recently led a study that showed 80 percent of NFL linemen who underwent surgery for spinal degeneration were able to return…

While both unilateral and bilateral laminotomies provide sufficient decompression of spinal stenosis and pain relief, the unilateral laminotomy can be performed with shorter operative times and less blood loss, according to a study published in Spine.

Surgeons performing minimally invasive lumbar microdiscectomy are exposed to significantly more radiation than surgeons performing an open microdiscectomy, according to an article published in Spine.

The Texas Back Institute in Plano recently opened the Center for Disc Replacement to serve an increasing number of national and international patients undergoing artificial disc replacement surgeries, according to a practice news release.