Spine

Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health has added GPS-guided robotic spine surgery, becoming the first provider in the Philadelphia and South Jersey region to offer the technology, according to a Jan. 21 NBC Philadelphia report.  Virtua uses Stryker’s Mako Spine robotic platform…

As pain management makes its own advancements, spine surgeons are putting increased emphasis on multidisciplinary collaborations.  Spine surgeons discuss how pain management’s advances are reshaping the work they do for the better. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of…

Generative AI and large language models provide some help in spine triage, but key decisions about surgery should be left to experts, according to a study published in the Global Spine Journal. Five things to know: 1. The study focused…

Variation in spine care, from when surgeons operate to how they operate, is drawing renewed scrutiny as costs rise and new technologies reshape training.  Spine leaders told Becker’s the specialty must tighten clinical pathways, safeguard core surgical fundamentals in the…

In a specialty that remains predominantly white and male-dominated, the way medical training programs present themselves can be influential to bringing in more underrepresented talent, spine surgeon Miracle Anokwute, MD, said. Dr. Anokwute, of Indianapolis-based Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine,…

Colin Haines, MD, performed the world’s first Bertolotti resection using augmented reality guidance, according to a Jan. 20 news release. Dr. Haines, of Reston, Va.-based VSI, used AR assistance to layer a 3D holographic view of the patient’s spine to…

Here are 10 practices and health systems seeking spine surgeons, using LinkedIn’s job search tool. 1. Campbell County Health in Gillette, Wyo., seeks an orthopedic spine surgeon. 2. Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria, La., seeks a spinal neurosurgeon. 3.…

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, has seen spine care evolve through rapid innovation.  But as outcomes and complication rates face greater scrutiny, the chief of the spine division at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University said the biggest gains are coming from a simpler…

Advances in surgical navigation may be breathing new life into an older spine technique, one spine surgeon says. The case study, published Jan. 3 in Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, focused on two adult patients with L5 spondylolysis and spina bifida occults. Both…

Medtech company Propiro earned FDA clearance for its Picasso feature within its Paradigm platform, according to a Jan. 15 news release. Picasso works in Propiro’s AI platform, which provides continuous 3D measurements to help spine surgeons assess alignment intraoperatively. “As…