Spine

This article is a portion of a book titled "Challenges, Risks and Opportunities in Today's Spine World " edited by Stephen Hochschuler, MD, Frank Phillips, MD, and Richard Fessler, MD. You can find links to the previous chapters at the end…

Here are the 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review in January:

Keith Norvill, DO, recently joined CHI St. Vincent Neurosurgery Clinic in Hot Springs, Ark.

Medical cannabis operator Curaleaf appointed Jaswinder Grover, MD, Feb. 3 to its board of directors.

Neurosurgeon Ali Raja, MD, on Feb. 3 joined Arkansas Surgical Hospital in Little Rock.

The North American Spine Society published guidelines Jan. 29 for the diagnosis and treatment of low back pain in adult patients.

Endoscopic spine surgery has the potential to become the leading minimally invasive surgical technique for the treatment of degenerative spine conditions, according to an article published in the Journal of Spine Surgery.

"Spinal deformity surgery today is safer than ever before," Munish Gupta, MD, told Becker's Spine Review, following the fourth edition release of "The Textbook of Spinal Surgery," which he and his colleague Keith Bridwell, MD, edited.

Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons making headlines this week.

Santa Rosa, Calif.-based neurosurgeon Thomas Keller, MD, faces a potential prison term of 60 years to life for allegedly causing four patient deaths by overprescribing opioids from 2011 to 2017, The Press Democrat reports.