Spine

The case against building an endoscopic spine program usually comes down to arithmetic. The disposable instruments cost more per case than open surgery. And on paper, every patient steered toward a minimally invasive decompression is a patient who did not…

The most advanced thing in spine care by 2028 may not be a robot, a navigation rig or a pair of augmented-reality glasses. According to four surgeons who spoke on a panel at Becker’s Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC…

Healthcare leaders have spent the last two years asking what AI can do. Can it write notes? Analyze research? Predict outcomes? Improve efficiency? At Becker’s 23rd Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, a panel of spine…

Three former surgical services leaders at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Ill., have filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging patient safety violations within the hospital’s neurosurgery service line and retaliation for reporting concerns, according to a June 23 report…

Historically, growth in spine care was relatively straightforward. Perform more procedures. Build more operating rooms. Expand access to new technologies. Increase volume. A growing number of spine leaders believe that formula is becoming outdated. At Becker’s 23rd Annual Spine, Orthopedic…

Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine received a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to study how chronic neuropathic pain affects cognitive function in spinal cord injury patients. The study, led by Roberta…

Innovation rarely fails because the technology falls short. More often, it fails because organizations underestimate what it takes to adopt it. Michael Gallizzi, MD, a robotic and endoscopic spine surgeon at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., has spent years…

For decades, spine surgery has largely operated on a straightforward premise: identify the problem and fix it. If an MRI showed spinal stenosis, instability, deformity and degeneration, the goal was often to address as much of the pathology as possible.…

A hybrid surgical approach for treating lumbar spondylolisthesis and multilevel spinal stenosis was associated with a 9.1% reoperation rate in a retrospective case series published June 12 in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The study evaluated 33 patients who underwent a…

A pilot study from New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine found no procedure-related complications among 27 patients who received a bone marrow aspirate concentrate injection during lumbar microdiscectomy and were followed for one year. The study, published in the July…