Spine

Mount Pleasant-based McLaren Central Michigan added neurosurgeon Timothy Spencer, DO, to its staff, the Midland Daily News reports.

John Shiau, MD, a neurosurgeon and director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Staten Island, N.Y.-based Healthcare Associates in Medicine, discusses trends in outpatient spine surgery.

One-third of American youth have experienced back pain in the previous year, according to research presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and reported in Medscape.

A study in Clinical Spine Surgery evaluated current trends in single-level cervical radiculopathy treatment.

Full-endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion is a feasible stabilization technique in an ambulatory surgical center, according to a study in the Pain Physician Journal.

Little Rock-based Arkansas Neuroscience Institute Co-founder and Director Ali Krisht, MD, received the 2019 Herbert Olivecrona Award for his neurosurgery work, Arkansas Money & Politics reports.

Neurosurgeon Andrea Halliday, MD, added chief medical officer to her role at PeaceHealth, according to a report from The Register-Guard.

The enhanced perioperative care program improved clinical and financial outcomes for major adult spine surgery patients at the Seattle-based University of Washington, according to a study in Spine.

North Charleston, S.C.-based Trident Medical Center's Sabino D'Agostino, DO, performed robotic spinal surgery on 91-year-old Julia Tourtellotte — and performed a dance with the patient just months later, Live 5 News reports.

Four spine surgeons discuss big opportunities in spine innovation and what they need in the future to provide better care.