Spine

From a Nevada surgeon performing a surgery with new technology to another professional's take on awake spine fusions, here are the latest spine surgeons making headlines.

NY Spine Medicine has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a claim of not providing a patient timely access to her medical records.

Here are the top-read stories on Becker's Spine Review during the week of Oct. 5-9:

Christopher Good, MD, on Oct. 8 performed a spinal fusion with the Augmedics Xvision Spine System, an augmented reality platform approved by the FDA in December.

Stanford Health Care's scoliosis and spinal deformity program in Palo Alto, Calif., has four pediatric spine surgeons, but features an all-women team twice a week that has been well-received by girls being treated at the center.

From two scoliosis lifetime achievement awards to honorees of the North American Spine Society, here are six spine surgeons who drew acclaim in the past month:

Awake spinal fusion is a novel approach to spine surgery that fuses minimally invasive or endoscopic surgical techniques with contemporary anesthesia. 

Miami Neuroscience Institute has onboarded neurosurgeon Michael Gomez, MD, according to an Oct. 7 report by South Florida Hospital News.

From loosened restrictions for 3D printing to increased regulations for the use of stem cell-based products, here are the next regulatory changes that three spine surgeons want to see in the field.

From robotic-assisted surgery to augmented reality and potential virtual health innovations, 10 spine surgeons discuss the technologies that they see making the next big breakthrough in the field.