Spine

Denver-based Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children performed the state's first vertebral body tethering procedure on Sophia Clem, 11, 4 CBS Denver reports.

Seth Grossman, MD, of Englewood, N.J.-based The Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, implanted Aesculap Implant Systems' activL Artificial Disc in a patient to address chronic lower back pain, Jewish Link reports.

Founder and President of the National Scoliosis Center, Luke Stikeleather, reaffirmed the importance of detecting scoliosis early in order to combat the serious health problems caused by the condition.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines bundled payments among Medicare beneficiaries for cervical fusions.

Boston Children's Hospital is the No. 1 hospital in the nation for pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Spine surgeons are successfully transitioning more complex procedures to the outpatient setting, but face obstacles from payers despite the move to value-based care.

Three neurosurgeons — Rafe Sales, MD, Mark McLaughlin, MD, and Vivek Deshmukh, MD — discuss their methods for avoiding burnout.

Here are six hospitals expanding spine and neurosurgeon programs.

Eighty-seven former patients and family members have sued Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health over a 2017 infection outbreak at its Porter Adventist Hospital related to orthopedic and spine surgical instruments, according to a Fox 31 Denver report.

A team of Harvard researchers used machine learning to predict which patients undergoing a procedure for lower back pain should be observed for opioid dependence, reports AI in Healthcare.