Spine

Burnsville, Minn.-based Inspired Spine Surgery Center celebrated the grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art facility specializing in minimally invasive spinal surgeries. 

Two World Wrestling Entertainment stars said they had spine surgeries since May 12, and both were performed by Andy Cordover, MD, of Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Ala.

The five-day long work week is common for many professions, but reducing it by a day has become a new idea.

Spinal fusion tends to cost more compared to cervical spinal fusion, according to Sidecar Health's care calculator.

World Wrestling Entertainment star Adam Scherr had a one-level cervical spine fusion, according to a June 2 Instagram post.

A jury ordered Cleveland Clinic to pay $7.6 million to a woman who was paralyzed after a 2018 back surgery, cleveland.com reported June 7.

Vertos Medical raised $26 million in Series C funding, the medtech company said June 7.

Cervical spinal fusion surgery costs the most in Alaska and is the least expensive in Iowa, according to Sidecar Health's care calculator, which outlines the average cash price for every procedure, test and drug in the U.S. healthcare system. 

Spine surgeon Frank Cammisa, Jr., MD, and Brooklyn Nets and NY Liberty owners Joe and Clara Wu Tsai will be honored by New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery June 5.

Empirical Spine's Limiflex Dynamic Sagittal Tether was compared to transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative spondylolisthesis in a recent study in The Open Orthopaedics Journal.