Spine
In the realm of spinal fusion surgery, the quest for faster, safer, and more reliable bone formation has led to…
For most of my career, the spine patients I saw all told a similar story: pain for a prolonged period of time, multiple primary care visits and too many over-the-counter remedies. Out of options, they would finally come to my…
Gerald Kadis, MD, a neurosurgeon who practiced at John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, Ga., for 46 years, died Sept. 16 following an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 80. Dr. Kadis completed his neurosurgical training at Columbia Presbyterian…
A spine surgeon can decide a fusion, disc replacement or decompression is the right operation. That does not always mean the case will move forward as planned. Across recent Becker’s reporting, spine surgeons have described payer rules reaching deeper into…
Exeter (N.H.) Hospital and Portsmouth, N.H.-based Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine signed an affiliation agreement to expand orthopedic services in the region, according to a Sept. 22 Foster’s Daily Democrat report. The affiliation is expected to take effect Jan. 1,…
Spine surgery has become increasingly capable of correcting severe deformities. Kristen Jones, MD, is interested in a different measure of progress: whether surgeons can keep more patients from ever needing those operations. Dr. Jones, an associate professor of neurosurgery and…
Saqib Hasan, MD, has been practicing endoscopic spine surgery for nearly a decade, and he’s grown tired of a particular conversation. It’s the one where someone points to a study showing no significant long-term outcome difference between two surgical approaches,…
When Christopher Tomaras, MD, a neurosurgeon and owner of Alpharetta, Ga.-based Axion Spine & Neurosurgery, began practicing in Atlanta in 1998, hospital employment was barely part of the physician landscape. Nearly three decades later, he looks around the city and…
A study of 168 consecutive patients undergoing minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion found secondary cage collapse in 20.5% of patients who received the Catalyft PL expandable cage, compared with 1.8% of those who received the X-PAC cage. The retrospective,…
SpineLine, the publication of the North American Spine Society, has named its 2026 class of “20 Under 40,” recognizing emerging leaders across the spine care field. Honorees were selected based on professional accomplishments, leadership, scholarship and service to NASS and…
From patient demand and outpatient growth to steep learning curves and questions about cost and clinical fit, spine surgeons remain divided on where endoscopic surgery belongs in a health system’s priorities. Six spine surgeons discussed how aggressively programs should invest…